[MSITE-523] Configuring build and reporting goals (under reportPlugins) requires duplication

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 3.0-beta-3
• Component/s: inheritance
• Environment: Apache Maven 3.0 (r1004208; 2010-10-04 13:50:56+0200); Java version: 1.6.0_22
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andreas Sewe
• Created: 10/Nov/10 05:59
• Updated: 22/Dec/14 10:48
• Resolved: 22/Dec/14 10:48

Description

Many plugins (maven-checkstyle-plugin, maven-javadoc-plugin, maven-pmd-plugin) have both build and reporting goals. Unfortunately, the plugin configuration done in the build section of the POM does not carry over to the plugin configuration done for the reportPlugins of the maven-site-plugin. Consequently, one has to duplicate any custom configuration which should apply to both build and reporting, e.g., the configLocation configuration element of the m-checkstyle-p.

Note that a workaround is possible, once MSITE-516 is resolved; still, I consider this to be an independent issue.

Issue Links

• is related to: MSITE-443 add a reportingManagement section
• is related to: MSITE-516 reportPlugins should/could inherit more information from pluginManagement