[pom] Add default descriptor / helpmojo #81
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@ctubbsii Do you recall any reason we would have been missing this logic? |
No. Just an oversight. Probably forgot to do it in some of my other plugins also. When I first started creating Maven plugins, I couldn't find good "getting started" documentation for new plugin authors (like best practices for class names, what to put in the POM, how to use provided scope properly for Maven-provided libs, how to use the Maven logger, when to use which plugin exception, how the plugin classpath works, etc.). I'm going to roll some of this up into a revelc-plugin-parent POM and revelc-parent POM to help with all the alerts about plugin version updates from dependabot, and to put in the boilerplate plugin stuff like this, but this would be good to merge now. Thanks for addressing this deficiency! |
Over on javaparser, noticed this ticket javaparser/javaparser#3309.
This indicated this did not work with maven plugins but we are one, so I tried to check help. Noticed we had plugin management and m2e data for same but failed to do this at all. Added it and have tested it, works as expected. Don't recall if some reason it was not here but its generally best practice to offer 'help' at very least.