[fedora-java] Maven upgrade to version 3.1.0

[Aleksandar Kurtakov]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mikolaj Izdebski" <mizdebsk at redhat.com>
> To: "Fedora Java Development List" <java-devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 8:46:42 AM
> Subject: [fedora-java] Maven upgrade to version 3.1.0
> 
> Version 3.1.0 of Apache Maven was recently released.  It is a
> long-awaited release which brings numerous new features and fixes many
> bugs.  A full list is available in Maven 3.1.0 release notes [1].
> 
> I think it's important for Fedora to switch to new Maven as soon as
> possible.  Unfortunately there are signifficant incompatibilities
> between Maven 3.1.0 and 3.0.5 which make this process non-trivial.
> 
> Maven 3.1.0 switched from Sonatype Aether to Eclipse Aether and from
> Sonatype Sisu to Eclipse Sisu.  Plugins that directly depend on Aether
> or Sisu may no longer work with Maven 3.1.0.  Upstream lists [2] some
> plugins that were or need to be updated to work with Maven 3.1.0.
> 
> I have created a tracker bug [3] which is intended to lists tasks
> needed to be done in order to migrate to Maven 3.1.0 as well as any
> bugs related to the migration.  I have populated the tracker with all
> changes needed that I am aware of at the moment, but feel free to add
> more bugs if you find them.
> 
> This is fairly complicated process as there are circular package
> dependencies because of which several packages need to be updated at the
> same time.  I will ask release engineering to create a dedicated Koji
> tag in order not to break rawhide during the process.

Mikolaj, 
Thanks for taking the lead to make this happen. It is highly appreciated.

Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse team

> 
> [1] http://maven.apache.org/docs/3.1.0/release-notes.html
> [2] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/AetherClassNotFound
> [3] http://bugzilla.redhat.com/985674
> 
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