m2e can't seem to handle Apache Maven sources

[garydgregory]

If you try to import Apache Maven sources, you get errors, and if eventually, you work around those, an infinite loop while importing.

To reproduce, start with installing Google repo.

• macOS, assuming Homebrew: brew install repo
• Linux: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install repo
  Make yourself a sandbox:

mkdir maven
cd maven

Then, get Maven sources like this:

repo init -u https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/maven-sources.git
repo sync
repo start master --all

Switch Eclipse and try to import all projects from the maven folder you create at the top of this setup.

This should be doable.
TY!

[mickaelistria]

I just tried it and couldn't reproduce (and I've been using a workspace with Maven sources imported for ~5 years before that). Can you please explicit which version of m2e you're using? and also, could you try installing latest m2e snapshots from https://download.eclipse.org/technology/m2e/snapshots/latest/ and report whether the issue you see is still present?

[laeubi]

@garydgregory can you try out the latest 2.0 snapshot please and see if the loop is fixed there?
Might be a duplicate of #389 #252 or #123