Life is too short to waste time uploading a patch or Maven Patch Tracker plugin

Life is too short and you don't want to waste time contributing to a project (creating a patch, a entry in the jira issue tracker then upload the patch).
So the Maven Patch Tracker plugin is for you !



You will be able with a maven plugin to do all of this in one command line !
Without any configuration you have to write :

mvn patch-tracker:create
-Dpatch.summary="foo summary"
-Dpatch.serverUrl=http://localhost:8080/browse/MNG  -B
-Dpatch.user=uid -Dpatch.password=pwd

If you find that boring or too long no problem, there is a solution for that (yes good developer are lasy developers they use tool to automate tasks :-) ).
So configure you pom, with the issue tracker id

  <issueManagement>
    <system>jira</system>
    <url>http://host:ip/browse/projectKey</url>
  </issueManagement>

Add a server entry in you settings.xml

   <server>
     <id>jira-maven</id>
     <username>olamy</username>
     <password>very complicated password for paranoiac security folks</password>
   </server>

Reference this jira server in your pom:

  <properties>
    ....
    <patch.tracker.serverId>jira-maven</patch.tracker.serverId>
    ....
  </properties>

Et voilà, just run and save fingers:

mvn patch-tracker:create -Dpatch.summary="foo summary" -B

NOTE: without -B the plugin will use a prompt mode to ask you confirmation on the values

An other mojo called update can add/update an issue with an other patch:

mvn patch-tracker:update -Dpatch.description="update of the issue with an other patch" -Dpatch.patchId=MNG-5203 -B

This command will update the issue MNG-5203 with an other patch.

NOTE: currently only jira is supported

The plugin will use the configured scm client configured tru your scm url to generate the patch/diff file.
So your project is configured with svn but for some reasons you use git svn.
No problem add the parameter: -Dscm.providerType=git

Other improvement I think: load the patch to review board.

Something else ?
Ideas and patches are welcome :-)

You can test it using the snapshot repo: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots-group/ or build it yourself: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/sandbox/trunk/plugins/maven-patch-tracker-plugin/

Have Fun and good hacking!