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maven plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter

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Project
craft-parts
Number
#1243
Type
issue
State
open
Author
lengau
Labels
Type: Enhancement Status: Needs information
Created
Updated
Closed
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Current evaluation

Maven plugin support for disable-parallel remains unimplemented; the open enhancement is maintainer-marked Needs information and deliberately low priority pending a real-world failing build.

Suggested action: keep open

Reason: The maintainer explicitly labeled this Type: Enhancement / Status: Needs information and called it extremely low priority until a real-world case is supplied. The global property exists and Autotools has an implementation, but MavenPluginProperties and get_build_commands still lack equivalent handling, so it remains a valid enhancement awaiting information.

Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot

Impact: 30 Quick Win: 13 Complexity: 35 Confidence: 90 Actionability: 65

Issue body

### What needs to get done Support the [disable-parallel](https://canonical-craft-parts.readthedocs-hosted.com/latest/common/craft-parts/reference/part_properties/#disable-parallel) part property in the maven plugin. ### Why it needs to get done All of our plugins should theoretically support this. In practice though, this is extremely low priority until someone shows us a real-world use case for it. If someone can bring us a real-world use case that we can test against (especially a case of "this application simply does not build with parallel"), that would be ideal. The [autotools plugin](https://github.com/canonical/craft-parts/pull/1167) required this for OpenJDK builds, for example.

Evaluation history

Date Model Scores Action Summary
stealth/space-bunny-alpha
Impact: 30
Quick Win: 13
Complexity: 35
Confidence: 90
Actionability: 65
keep open Maven plugin support for disable-parallel remains unimplemented; the open enhancement is maintainer-marked Needs information and deliberately low priority pending a real-world failing build.
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Impact: 30
Quick Win: 6
Complexity: 30
Confidence: 60
Actionability: 30
keep open Enhancement request to add `disable-parallel` part property to the maven plugin. Open 384 days with no real-world use case provided; marked low priority by maintainer.
qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Impact: 15
Quick Win: 11
Staleness: 82
Complexity: 25
Confidence: 80
Support Request: 5
close stale Feature request to add the disable-parallel part property to the maven plugin. Labeled 'Needs information' - maintainer awaits a real-world use case. No activity for ~12 months; the maven plugin still lacks the property.
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Staleness: 85
Complexity: 25
Confidence: 80
Support Request: 5
close stale Request to add disable-parallel part property support to the maven plugin. Labeled needs information, inactive for 10 months with no comments or provided use case.
qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6
Staleness: 85
Complexity: 35
Confidence: 85
Support Request: 10
close stale Feature request to add disable-parallel support to the maven plugin. Awaiting a real-world use case for testing. No activity or comments in 10 months.

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Related work

  • Related To: canonical/craft-parts#1244 (confidence 99%)

    Companion open request for the maven-use plugin to support the same property.

  • Related To: canonical/craft-parts#1167 (confidence 98%)

    Autotools disable-parallel implementation is referenced as the precedent in the issue.

  • Related To: canonical/craft-parts#1242 (confidence 95%)

    Companion request in the same plugin-wide disable-parallel effort.

Related issues

Issue Project State Summary Similarity
#1244 maven-use plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter craft-parts open Maintainer-filed request to add the disable-parallel part property to the maven-use plugin. Marked Enhancement/Needs information; maintainer states it is extremely low priority pending a real-world use case, none supplied in ~395 days.
92%
#1232 ant plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter craft-parts open Ant plugin support for disable-parallel is unimplemented; the request remains open as Needs information, with maintainers requesting a real-world case that fails under parallel builds.
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#1240 java plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter craft-parts open Java base disable-parallel support remains open and Needs information: the property is not implemented, and no real-world Java build failing under parallelism has been supplied.
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#1239 gradle plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter craft-parts open Feature request: add `disable-parallel` support to the gradle plugin. Maintainer labels it low-priority, 'Needs information', asking for a real-world use case that fails under parallel builds; design (None/False/True) sketched in a comment.
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#1245 meson plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter craft-parts open Enhancement request to add `disable-parallel` support to the meson plugin. Open, labelled Enhancement/Needs information by maintainer lengau; explicitly deprioritized until someone provides a real-world use case to test against.
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#1234 cmake plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter craft-parts open Enhancement: make the cmake plugin honour the `disable-parallel` part property. Still unimplemented at HEAD (cmake_plugin.py always emits `-j{parallel_build_count}`). Maintainer-filed, labelled Enhancement/Needs information; explicitly deprioritised pending a real-world use case.
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#1242 make plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter craft-parts open Enhancement: make plugin should honor the disable-parallel part property (currently always emits make -j"N"). Filed by a maintainer, labeled Triaged/Enhancement, and explicitly deferred as "extremely low priority" until a real-world non-parallel-build use case is supplied; autotools already has it via PR #1167.
79%
#1249 qmake plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter craft-parts open Enhancement: add disable-parallel support to the qmake plugin. Maintainer-filed, labeled Needs information; explicitly deferred as low priority pending a real-world use case. One of six sibling per-plugin issues (cmake, meson, make, go, rust).
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#1246 npm plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter craft-parts open Add disable-parallel support to the npm plugin. It remains open and low priority, with the maintainer requesting a real-world npm build case before prioritizing implementation.
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#1237 go plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter craft-parts open Adding disable-parallel support to the Go plugin remains open and low priority, pending a concrete real-world use case or application that fails with parallel builds.
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