[MRELEASE-707] release plugin does not use neither ${project.scm.connection} nor ${project.scm.developerConnection}

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.1
• Component/s: prepare
• Environment: ArchLinux; Maven 3.0.3; Mercurial 1.9.1
• Assignee: Robert Scholte
• Reporter: Alexander Betaev
• Created: 26/Aug/11 01:57
• Updated: 18/Dec/14 12:04
• Resolved: 13/Sep/14 10:41

Description

Use case: I don't want to include <scm/> section in all my POM's since I want to perform releases only using CI software. It seems for me to be more useful configuration for distributed SCM's than using release plugins locally.

So I am providing '-Dproject.scm.connection=scm:hg:file://${basedir}/../' and '-Dproject.scm.developerConnection=scm:hg:file://${basedir}/../' to Maven's JVM. But it does not affect anything in maven-release-plugin. Also I did not find any property which I should use instead of project.scm.connection.

The error message I receive looks like I forgot to configure maven-scm-plugin:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.2.1:prepare (default-cli) on project parent: Missing required setting: scm connection or developerConnection must be specified. -> [Help 1]