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Common reporting plugins

Common reporting plugins

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Common reporting plugins

- [Instructor] Now much like we did for the build plugins I want to walk through some of the most common reports that you may want to consider when you are deciding how to build your Maven site. Let's jump back into our web browser on Maven.Apache.org and we're going to scroll down on the left to our plugin section. And then we're going to scroll down to the reporting section. And the first one that I want to talk about is this Changelog report. If you are using SCM and you should be, the Changelog plugin gives you everything that you need to know about what changes are included in your build. Now if you're doing true CICD where every commit to master becomes a build, this is a little bit less valuable. But if you are aggregating multiple changes into a single build this becomes invaluable because you need to know what's in every release. And you may be doing nightly builds on a CICD or per commit builds, but you want to still have this aggregation function for your consistent…

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