Generate OSGi metadata

[laeubi]

This adds the bnd-maven plugin to the dependency management section to allow generate OSGi metadata in an non-intrusive way.

This was discussed here:

• Generate OSGi infos in the manifest gherkin-utils#131

@mpkorstanje can you review this?

[mpkorstanje]

I've pushed some changes. If you have no further remarks, feel free to merge. I'll trust your judgement on the directives here.

For future PRs please:

• Feel free to create a branch in this repository. If I want to contribute to your PR it is easier if I don't first have to add your clone as a remote.

• Add a changelog entry where relevant to the end users of this artifact (in this instance, ourselves). These changes are included on pull requests from Renovate. So this helps communicate what is in an update. For example:

[laeubi]

Thanks for the adjustments, I think we must try it out if it really works for all consumers but it seems a good starting point to me!

Will this deployed somewhere automatically so it can be used in the subprojects or is triggering a deployment needed?

[mpkorstanje]

Will this deployed somewhere automatically so it can be used in the subprojects or is triggering a deployment needed?

A release must be made manually. If you're interested in the details:

https://github.com/cucumber/.github/blob/main/RELEASING.md

TL;DR: I'll make the release.

[mpkorstanje]

Thanks for the adjustments, I think we must try it out if it really works for all consumers but it seems a good starting point to me!

I suppose you can spot check a few versions by running mvn install on this project and using the snapshot produced in some other repositories to verify the generated information is correct. Do you want to do that first?

[laeubi]

If there is a snapshot repo I can use that for (local) testing, just let me know!

[mpkorstanje]

You can run mvn install, locally then use that version in another project. Or am I missing something?

[laeubi]

You can run mvn install, locally then use that version in another project. Or am I missing something?

Okay then I misunderstood that, I now startet with a first draft PR here and will create some more so we can get a bigger picture about how this will work out:

• Generate OSGi infos in the manifest messages#344
• Add OSGi metadata to the manifest gherkin#485

[mpkorstanje]

Okay. Perhaps, for tracking purposes you can create an issue in https://github.com/cucumber/common. Then you can reference that issue and not repeat yourself.

For example: cucumber/common#2281

[laeubi]

I made some local test now picking some of the cucumber-jvm modules and I found no issues so far... so from my side the parent is ready to be released so we can use it in the sub projects!

[mpkorstanje]

Release in progress. Give it an hour to propagate to central.