'parent.relativePath' points at my com.mycompany:MyProject instead of org.apache:apache - Why?

Question

What is true is that Solr project directory is inside MyProject parent directory (but there's no module or any maven relationship between the 2, just FS convenience). Do I have to place it out?

$ mvn -DskipTests clean install
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[WARNING] 
[WARNING] Some problems were encountered while building the effective model for org.apache.lucene:lucene-solr-grandparent:pom:3.1-SNAPSHOT
[WARNING] 'parent.relativePath' points at com.mycompany:MyProject instead of org.apache:apache, please verify your project structure @ line 23, column 11
[WARNING] 
[WARNING] It is highly recommended to fix these problems because they threaten the stability of your build.
[WARNING] 
[WARNING] For this reason, future Maven versions might no longer support building such malformed projects.
[WARNING] 

from pom.xml:

<parent>
    <groupId>org.apache</groupId>
    <artifactId>apache</artifactId>
    <version>8</version>
  </parent>

$ pwd
/Users/simpatico/ws/MyProjectBaseDir/solr

Answer 1

Add an empty <relativePath> to <parent> so that it resolves the parent pom from the repositories.

  <parent>
    <groupId>org.apache</groupId>
    <artifactId>apache</artifactId>
    <version>8</version>
    <relativePath></relativePath>
  </parent>

Here is the relevant doc.

This feature is only for enhancing the development in a local checkout of that project. Set the value to an empty string in case you want to disable the feature and always resolve the parent POM from the repositories.
Default value is: ../pom.xml.