After running mvn javadoc:aggregate I get:
[INFO] Building Atlassian Crowd Bundled Plugins
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Downloading: https://m2proxy.atlassian.com/repository/internal/com/atlassian/crowd/crowd-sal/2.3.2/crowd-sal-2.3.2.bundle
[INFO] Unable to find resource 'com.atlassian.crowd:crowd-sal:bundle:2.3.2' in repository central (https://m2proxy.atlassian.com/repository/internal)
Downloading: https://m2proxy.atlassian.com/repository/m1/com/atlassian/crowd/crowd-sal/2.3.2/crowd-sal-2.3.2.bundle
[INFO] Unable to find resource 'com.atlassian.crowd:crowd-sal:bundle:2.3.2' in repository atlassian-m1-repository (https://m2proxy.atlassian.com/repository/m1)
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[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
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[INFO] Failed to resolve artifact.
Missing:
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1) com.atlassian.crowd:crowd-sal:bundle:2.3.2
Try downloading the file manually from the project website.
Then, install it using the command:
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=com.atlassian.crowd -DartifactId=crowd-sal -Dversion=2.3.2 -Dpackaging=bundle -Dfile=/path/to/file
Alternatively, if you host your own repository you can deploy the file there:
mvn deploy:deploy-file -DgroupId=com.atlassian.crowd -DartifactId=crowd-sal -Dversion=2.3.2 -Dpackaging=bundle -Dfile=/path/to/file -Durl=[url] -DrepositoryId=[id]
Path to dependency:
1) com.atlassian.crowd:crowd-bundled-plugins:pom:2.3.2
2) com.atlassian.crowd:crowd-sal:bundle:2.3.2
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1 required artifact is missing.
for artifact:
com.atlassian.crowd:crowd-bundled-plugins:pom:2.3.2
from the specified remote repositories:
central (https://m2proxy.atlassian.com/repository/internal),
atlassian-m1-repository (https://m2proxy.atlassian.com/repository/m1)
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[INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
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[INFO] Total time: 21 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Wed Aug 10 18:23:34 CDT 2011
[INFO] Final Memory: 62M/618M
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Workaround seems to be to run mvn install javadoc:aggregate instead.
I have seen similar behaviour lately with release:prepare target as well.