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Robert Scholte commented on MRELEASE-431:
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[~simonetripodi] asked me to give some feedback. I have some other stuff which need to be released first. 
I still have to decide if we should introduce a separate project for the versionPolicyManager or include it as a module of the Maven Release project. Another thing on my mind: should the API support methods to make it a major, minor or bugversion increase, or leave that up to the implementation ( which should be verify easy with the {{implementation=""}} trick)?
Since we're talking about an API which will stay forever, we need the time to make the right decisions.
                
> Configuration of policy for calculating next (release) version
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>
>                 Key: MRELEASE-431
>                 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRELEASE-431
>             Project: Maven Release Plugin
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: prepare
>    Affects Versions: 2.0-beta-8
>            Reporter: Carsten Ziegeler
>            Assignee: Robert Scholte
>             Fix For: 2.5
>
>         Attachments: 0001-MRELEASE-431-Configuration-of-policy-for-calculating.patch, MRELEASE-431.patch, MRELEASE-431-v2.patch
>
>
> Currently, when preparing the release, the version to release is always the next version which usually is the current version without the snapshot extension.
> There are quiet a lot projects (Apache Felix, Sling and others) following an even release numbering policy. So while the current development version is odd (like 1.2.3-SNAPSHOT), the next released version will be 1.2.4.
> It would be nice if this could be made configuration through some configuration property like
> <versionPolicy>next-even</versionPolicy> (with possible values being: next (default, as-is), next-even, next-odd
> I briefly scanned through the code and it seems that adding support for this requires changes in both, the release-manager and the release-plugin.
> If this feature gets accepted and if someone could give me some minor hints how/where to add this I could come up with a patch.

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