[MRELEASE-184] Ability to perform releases with unsupported SCMs

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Auto Closed
• Component/s: scm
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Trygve Laugstøl
• Created: 13/Dec/06 05:37
• Updated: 06/Sep/15 20:45
• Resolved: 06/Sep/15 20:45

Description

The current functionality of the release plugin is very useful, but requires that you use a supported SCM. It should be possible to change this requirement in (at least) two ways:

o When doing the release process, pause and wait for the user to manually perform the steps that maven-scm normally would do, or

o Break up the current monolitic goals into smaller parts so that the user can call them manually and to SCM operations in the background. I think this would be my approach, as there are several features of the release plugin that are useful outside of a release procedure context, the pom re-writing is the first that comes to mind.