Increment a maven POM minor version

gistfile1.py

from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET

file = open('pom.xml')

# NOTE: edit the pom.xml manually to increase to a major version
minor_version_increment = 0.01

ET.register_namespace("", "http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0")
tree = ET.ElementTree()
tree.parse(file)
root = tree.getroot()

for child in root:
	if child.tag == "{http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0}version":
		current_version = float(child.text)
		new_version = current_version + minor_version_increment
		child.text = str(new_version)

value = ET.tostring(root, encoding='utf8', method='xml')
file.close()

save = open('pom.xml','w')
save.write(value)
save.close()