Profile activation on both release:prepare and release:perform

Question

I cannot find a solution for activating some Maven profile on release:prepare and release:perform (both) goals. Something like this:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.2.1</version>
  <configuration>
    <useReleaseProfile>false</useReleaseProfile>
    <goals>deploy</goals>
    <arguments>-Pmy-release</arguments>
  </configuration>
</plugin>

just doesn't work. I know that releaseProfiles setting works only during release:perform so I just though that arguments setting is exactly what I want, but my-profile profile is not active during the execution. Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

This looks like a duplicate question. Please take a look at this question, it has an answer. maven release plugin ignores releaseProfile

Basically version 2.2.1 of the release plugin adds a releaseProfiles parameter that will allow you to define the profiles to enable during release.

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-release-plugin/examples/perform-release.html

Unfortunately, it looks like there's a bug that will prohibit it from doing what you want...

Edit

One thing that I have used in this case is not using the -P argument, but rather triggering the profile through an environment setting using -Denv=release. Then in the POM, I have the profile activation based on the value of env. This has always worked for me.