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Maven Release Changelist Policy
The code in this repo was originally created by Keir Lawson and demonstrated nicely how to implement a 'yearly' release strategy for use with Maven's maven-release-plugin. I just modified it to implement the following, much simpler strategy:
The development version which is created after the release contains the Maven friendly '${changelist}' instead of '-SNAPSHOT'.
This versioning policy for use with Maven's maven-release-plugin specifies a versioning scheme along the lines of that currently used by IntelliJ, namely year.major.minor.
Usage
This plugin requires Java 8 along with a recent version of the release plugin. To use in your project edit your POM and set the projectVersionPolicyId configuration property of the maven-release-plugin to changelist, along with adding a dependency to this artifact, like so:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0-M1</version>
<configuration>
<projectVersionPolicyId>changelist</projectVersionPolicyId>
</configuration>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.m-creations</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-release-changelist-policy</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
And do not forget to specify a default property changelist:
<properties>
<changelist>-SNAPSHOT</changelist>
</properties>
