You have found a bug, or you have an idea for a cool new feature? Contributing code is a great way to give something back to the open source community. Before you dig right into the code, there are a few guidelines that we need contributors to follow so that we can have a chance of keeping on top of things.
This plugin contains compare goal for Reproducible Builds tooling, to ease checking Maven builds that are expected to be reproducible get really the same output as reference build.
The purpose of this compare goal is:
to generate a buildinfo file from a build, recording fingerprints of output files
compare this recording of outputs to the reference files.
If reference build is available in a remote repository with predefined id, like central:
mvn verify artifact:compare -Dreference.repo=central
If reference build is available in a remote repository without predefined id, use its url instead:
mvn verify artifact:compare -Dreference.repo=https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/maven-staging-group/
We accept Pull Requests via GitHub. The developer mailing list is the main channel of communication for contributors.
There are some guidelines which will make applying PRs easier for us:
git diff --check before committing.mvn -Prun-its verify to assure nothing else was accidentally broken.If you plan to contribute on a regular basis, please consider filing a contributor license agreement.