display-parent-updates follow-up

[cachescrubber]

display-parent-updates follow-up

First of all thank you for taking care of my PR #1016!

I noticed it has been release as 2.16.2 but I used 2.17.0 in at-since javadoc comments. If you care, I could file another PR to fix this. Just let me know.

Also I would like to discuss two ideas I had while implementing #1017.

Display- vs update goals.

For the display-*-updates goals which correspond 1:1 to an update-* goal - would't it make sense to replace the display goal with an additional property (displayOnly, or dryRun) in the update goal? This would eliminate a lot of duplications.

Mojos/Goals we could refactor accordingly would be imo

• update-parent and display-parent-update
• update-properties and display-property-updates

Adopt Reports to the concept of Segments

org.codehaus.mojo.versions.api.Segment

Instead of filtering versions like in the display or update goal, I would suggest to report per Segment:

Example:

Current Version: 1.2.3

Latest Increment update: 1.2.4
Latest Minor update: 1.3.7
Latest Major update: 2.0.1

[jarmoniuk]

Hi there.

For the display--updates goals which correspond 1:1 to an update- goal - would't it make sense to replace the display goal with an additional property (displayOnly, or dryRun) in the update goal? This would eliminate a lot of duplications.

Implementation-wise, that would make sense indeed. However, most users don't pay close attention to changes in plugins as they mostly have them plugged into their CI/CD pipelines. Removing a goal or changing option semantics (even preceded by a deprecation) would eventually cause a barrage of bug reports with complaints about broken pipelines.

So, personally, I wouldn't introduce any breaking usage changes.

[slawekjaranowski]

I noticed it has been release as 2.16.2 but I used 2.17.0 in at-since javadoc comments. If you care, I could file another PR to fix this. Just let me know.

I had a plan to bump project version to 2.17.0 .... but forgot about it, @olamy release next version as is ....

Master version should be always ready for release without magic - so it was my mistake 😢

Now we can update since tags to corresponding correct version 2.16.2 and with next release documentation will be ok.