[MRELEASE-269] Check that 'new development version' is a SNAPSHOT version

• Type: Wish
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0-beta-6
• Fix Version/s: 2.4
• Component/s: prepare
• Labels: contributers-welcome
• Assignee: Robert Scholte
• Reporter: Michael Meyer
• Created: 20/Jul/07 13:54
• Updated: 10/Jun/16 19:54
• Resolved: 28/Aug/12 16:13

Description

While executing 'mvn release:prepare' one gets asked for the new development version like this:
What is the new development version for "foo"? (com.bar:foo) 1.12-SNAPSHOT:

Say I want the new development version to be 2.0-SNAPSHOT (and not like suggested 1.12-SNAPSHOT) but by accident I only enter 2.0. This will work just fine until I want to execute 'mvn release:prepare' again at some later point. Then I will get the error message that the current version is not a SNAPSHOT version.

It would be really nice if release:prepare could check if I have entered a valid SNAPSHOT version. If not release:prepare should fail or even nicer ask me to enter a proper SNAPSHOT version.