As every ASF project, Apache Maven regularly reports to the Apache board about
the status of the project. Our latest report (October 15th, 2014) is shown
below:
Apache Maven is a widely-used project build tool, targeting mainly Java
development. Apache Maven promotes the use of dependencies via a
standardized coordinate system, binary plugins, and a standard build
lifecycle.
* General Information
* SSL was enabled for central during August and Maven 3.2.3 was released
to use https by default in super POM [1].
* Description of central repository position in Maven ecosystem has been
updated to match latest evolutions [2].
* A lot of plugin releases are done to define common 2.2.1 minimum Maven
version requirement. We expect in the near future to update the minimum
requirement to Maven 3.0 (JRE 5), which will permit to make some cleanup
in plugins code, then Maven core.
* JDK8 compatibility status: latest informations available in our wiki [3].
[MCOMPILER-228] identified as JDK 8 bug, fixed in JDK1.8.0_40
* Compliance with ASF source header policy
8 plugins have been fixed this quarter.
Only maven-eclipse-plugin, wagon, surefire and a few components are not yet
compliant (on 106 release roots).
We're preparing to enable rat check on every build in next maven-parent
POM, to ensure full compliance from now on.
* Update requirements of LICENSE and NOTICE files in source control
Currently no change cause there is no real guide line nor a definitive
decision made by the ASF.
* Source download link requirement
The site.xml descriptor for all plugins has been changed accordingly to
reflect the requirements based on MNGSITE-152 [4].
This means that every new release contains appropriate download link [5]
and an Apache License link [6].
Every release which has been reported this quarter contains already those
links.
Issue closed: this report is the last one with status on this topic.
* Community
* Karl Heinz Marbaise joined the PMC (2014-08-25)
* No new committer this quarter (last added on 2014-03-17)
* ApacheCon Europe: we don't have any talk, but a few developers said they
were attending, then expect to meet and discuss about Maven future plans.
* Mailing List activity
Users mailing list activity has reduced a little bit over the last six
month in comparison to 2013 whereas the developer list activity is more or
less constant within the same time period.
* Releases
Core
* Apache Maven (3.2.3) (2014-08-17)
Plugins
* Apache Maven Site Plugin 3.4 (2014-07-07)
* Apache Maven Source Plugin 2.3 (2014-07-11)
* Apache Maven SCM Plugin 1.9.1 (2014-07-25)
* Apache Maven PMD Plugin 3.2 (2014-08-01)
* Apache Maven Assembly Plugin 2.4.1 (2014-08-03)
* Apache Maven EJB Plugin 2.4 (2014-08-24)
* Apache Maven Install Plugin 2.5.2 (2014-08-27)
* Apache Maven Deploy Plugin 2.8.2 (2014-08-27)
* Apache Maven ACR Plugin 1.1 (2014-09-02)
* Apache Maven RAR Plugin 2.4 (2014-09-08)
* Apache Maven Checkstyle Plugin 2.13 (2014-09-18)
* Apache Maven Dependency Plugin 2.9 (2014-09-18)
* Apache Maven Javadoc Plugin 2.10 (2014-09-20)
* Apache Maven Clean Plugin 2.6 (2014-09-22)
* Apache Maven Release Plugin 2.5.1 (2014-09-22)
* Apache Maven Changes Plugin 2.11 (2014-09-24)
* Apache Maven JavaDoc Plugin 2.10.1 (2014-09-27)
* Apache Maven Resources Plugin 2.7 (2014-09-29)
* Apache Maven Source Plugin 2.4 (2014-10-07)
* Apache Maven Linkcheck Plugin 1.2 (2014-10-08)
* Apache Maven WAR Plugin 2.5 (2014-10-08)
Other
* Apache Maven Plugin Testing 3.2.0 (2014-07-14)
* Apache Maven SCM 1.9.1 (2014-07-25)
* Apache Maven Shared Dependency Analyzer 1.5 (2014-09-11)
* Apache Maven SCM 1.9.2 (2014-09-13)
* Apache Maven Shared Dependency Tree 2.2 (2014-09-14)
* Apache Maven Wagon (2014-09-18)
* Apache Maven Shared Reporting Impl 2.3 (2014-09-14)
* Apache Software Foundation Parent POM 15 (2014-09-28)
[1] http://maven.apache.org/ref/3.2.3/maven-model-builder/super-pom.html
[2] http://maven.apache.org/repository/
[3] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/Java+8+Upgrade
[4] http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-152
[5] http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-PLUGINNAME-plugin/download.cgi
[6] http://www.apache.org/licenses/
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