Maven Documentation and Builds?

[David DeWolf <da...@daviddewolf.com>]

Now that we are generating documentation using maven, we have access to
several reporting plugins. Several of these reports require that all
binary dependancies are defined within the project.xml file.
Fullfilling this requirement will also get us one step closer to using
maven to manage our entire build.

I have added to the project descriptor the servlet.jar dependancy.
(see the latest updates to
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24585 for more
details)  This reduced the number of reported errors significantly.  The
next logical step would be to add the portlet.jar - however, the
portlet.jar is not available within the maven remote repository.  Does
anyone object to me submitting a request to the maven team to add the
portlet.jar to the repsitory?  (I'm assuming that since the servlet.jar
is in it, there are no licensing restrictions).

Finally, is a "maven managed project" a goal that we would like to
attain? I seem to have received pretty positive feedback so far, but I
want to make sure before I go too far down the path.  Is this something
that all of you comitters need to vote on?

Thanks,

David