Jenkins Versioning Artefacts Automatically

Question

My Jenkins builds my maven repo that is stored in GitHub. I have three main branches:

• Master
• Develop
• Release_xx

What I store in Master is the results of the release branch being merged into Master, and therefore my production branch.

My Jenkins builds the Master branch, but the best i can figure out for versioning is to use the git_commit , git_branch and build_number .

Question:

I want to be able to version my artefacts like this 0.14.5 for my master branch. So this would be 0 . release . increment

I want to be able to automate the bumping of the minor version, and I don't mind manually changing the major version. I normally pass in variables using mvn install -Dvariable=value .

Please, can someone help guide me! Ideally, i do not want to install the maven release plugin. I would prefer to use a script or a jenkins plugin.

Answer 1

Can you try using https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Jenkins+Artifactory+Plugin+-+Release+Management plugin?
This plugin helped me to automate the release process.