Developer Guide

Self-host bootstrap

ike-tooling is the one reactor in the IKE Network that builds the plugin it also wants to use against its own site. That creates a Maven reactor cycle, and the release flow sidesteps it with an X-SNAPSHOT bootstrap — a property-activated profile that references the plugin at a different GAV than the reactor submodules.

The pattern is documented in full on the plugin site: Self-host bootstrap pattern^[2]. Read that if you are:

• Touching the release flow’s site invocations (ReleaseDraftMojo — search for "X-SNAPSHOT bootstrap (2 of 2)").
• Modifying the releaseSelfSite profile in this reactor’s pom.xml (search for "X-SNAPSHOT bootstrap (1 of 2)").
• Adding more pre-site bindings to the reactor root.
• Hitting a reactor-cycle error during mvn site and wondering why the rest of the build is fine.

The short version: dev-time mvn install does not activate the profile (no property set → no <plugins> entry → no cycle), and the release flow passes -Drelease.bootstrap.version=X-SNAPSHOT only on its three site invocations.

More sections, as they accrue

This is a stub. Add subsections here when there are non-obvious contributor-facing patterns that would otherwise live as in-code comments scattered across the reactor.