Avalon Versioning Maven Plug-in

This plugin triggers on dist:deploy and jar:deploy goals, and increment the build number when the jar or distro has been uploaded. The CVS will also be tagged with the version, for proper maintenance.

The plugin will need to initialize the project first, which is done with;

maven increment:initialize

This will create the initial setup and enable the Versioning plugin for the project. However, you will need to set the maven.versioning.enable property in the project.properties file to true as well.

Initially the version is set to 1.0.dev-0. The 'dev-' part means that it is development in-progress. We call this the "phase". There are only 3 phases, "dev-", "rc-" and "", where "rc" stands for release candidate. The workflow is, when a new Minor version is started, the version starts in the "dev-" phase, and any deployment will increment the number (digits right of dev-). Once the code has stablized, i.e. no more incompatible changes, and community-wide testing to start, the phase is incremented to "rc-". This is done by;

maven increment:phase

That will bring the version from, for instance, "1.0.dev-176" to "1.0.rc-0". Next time the increment:phase goal is called the result would become "1.0.0".

To increment the Major and Minor parts, you invoke

maven increment:minor maven increment:major

respectively. For a Minor increment, it will be set to "X.y.dev-0" and for a Major increment the version will be set to "X.0.dev-0".