There's been lots of talk lately about release candidates vs betas for Maven.

I'm firmly in the RC camp, as the core of maven has had very little change for quite some time now, and barring the memory usage of the reactor, not much is majorly wrong with it for a release....

Just in case u missed it, 1.0 beta 10 has been released. It's a lot of bug fixes, documentation updates and a few new features.

Thanks to all the people who contributed to this release, there have been quite a few vocal users sending in patches and keeping us developers on our collective toes!

All round queenslander, Ben has a blog here in the haus.

Vincent mentioned XMLTask today on the Maven lists, and it's just what I've needed for some of our builds

Had a need the other day to turn a DTD into something nicer.
Here's a tool I found.

Someone mentioned that Jira has a RoadMap feature that shows what versions the user thinks things should be fixed in.

The report that's there for Maven doesn't currently reflect what we have planned :-)

I've been asked this a few times by a few people, and as a nice example of how Jira works, here's the list of issues for the b10 release.

Once they're finished, we're ready to roll.

Just going through the thrills of getting a consistent, accessible set of documentation for a set of projects we're working on at the moment and it's been thrilling to see how creative people can be with Word (tm etc).

There really needs to be an easier way to get documentation done than the free for all word processing style.

I'd be so happy if Maven's xdoc or html2xdoc could do it easily for me. Maybe I should seriously look into the 'plain' html side of things.

What do you do for project doco?

Well, maven now has a much better ability to work with multiple projects simultaneously. Thanks to Michal for helping out on this one.

This means it's easier to generate documentation sites for many projects and aggregate them all into one.

Another beta of the infamous httpclient has been released.

Yay,

it's finally reached the release point.

Much as I use struts, I'm still not really happy with the architecture it uses and the amount of effort required to get up to speed.