I'm running mvn release:prepare -Darguments="-Dmaven.test.skip=true -DskipTests" on the master checkout of Spotify's docker-client. But I can't get maven's release plugin to skip the tests. Why doesn't maven in this case respect the CLI flags?
I'm also curious what causes the release plugin to execute the surefire-plugin. There's no surefire-plugin specified in pom.xml.
mvn --version
Apache Maven 3.2.5 (12a6b3acb947671f09b81f49094c53f426d8cea1; 2014-12-14T12:29:23-05:00)
Maven home: /usr/local/Cellar/maven/3.2.5/libexec
Java version: 1.7.0_25, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_25.jdk/Contents/Home/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "mac os x", version: "10.10.2", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac"
There are two things. First if you like to run a release you need to run mvn release:perform which really runs the step for the final release and not the mvn release:prepare. If you like to skip the tests in mvn release:prepare you should use mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true plus the given arguments you have defined.
Apart from that maven-surefire-plugin is defined in the default life cylce