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PVCS support coming to Maven SCM March 31, 2006
We know that Maven SCM is getting traction when companies like Serena work on implementing a provider for Maven SCM and offer it to the...
Continuum 1.0 Released! October 26, 2005
The Maven team is pleased to announce the 1.0 of Continuum. Continuum is a continous integration server. We have progressively improved Continuum over five previous...
Maven builds Struts October 26, 2005
I generally take a peek at all the top level project (TLP) reports that float by every few months at Apache and I noticed that...
Maven 2.0 Release Now Available October 24, 2005
Figured I would post the whole release announcement here as it seems our entry posted to TSS isn't going to run our announcement which we...
How to deal with submitted patches effectively using JIRA October 24, 2005
Brett was processing some patches today so I asked him how he normally keeps track of patches and his method is to flag email when...
Where to find Maven 2.x Plug-ins September 22, 2005
Someone on the Maven users mailing list unfortunately started a Castor plug-in. This is unfortunate because we already have one! For those of you jumping...
The POM and the importance of project metadata April 25, 2005
If you're a user of Maven then you are familiar with the Project Object Model (POM) which is the basic unit of work in Maven....
Why Maven uses JAR names with versions April 22, 2005
There was a discussion on the mailing list about why the Maven developers chose to mandate the use of a version for artifacts placed in...
I'm looking for a Maven book author for O'Reilly December 11, 2004
Things have become too hectic for me of late, and so I realize I'm not ever going to have time to finish writing the Maven...
Maven 1.0.2 Released December 07, 2004
The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of Maven 1.0.2. http://maven.apache.org/start/download.html This release contains further bugfixes since the Maven 1.0 release. In...
Maven 1.0.1 Released November 11, 2004
The maven team is pleased to announce the Maven 1.0.1 release! Download This release contains bugfixes since the Maven 1.0 release. In addition, all of...
Maven upload bundles are a success! May 12, 2004
After processing a handful of of upload bundles artifacts seem to be getting in to Ibiblio just fine. I think the bottleneck users have complained...
Codehaus to Ibiblio sync fires up! May 12, 2004
As part of the process to get artifacts into Ibiblio more efficiently a sync has been setup between the Codehaus maven repository and the maven...
Maven user uploads to ibiblio now easier May 10, 2004
After going through all the requests for uploads today I discovered that either crucial pieces of information were missing or the instructions provided not being...
Improving Maven's ibiblio support for OSS organizations May 10, 2004
Currently Apache i s the only OSS organization that has a scheduled pull of artifacts into ibiblio, but I would like to change this ASAP....
O'Reilly Maven Book Articles February 10, 2004
For anyone who is interested in shaping the form of the O'Reilly book on Maven you might want to take a peek here. The format...
Maven appreciation day December 16, 2003
It's always nice to hear from folks who are using Maven and actually find it useful :-) Some folks at ILOG dropped me a line...
SCM project rolls along December 06, 2003
Emmanuel has been busy adding StarTeam support in addition to moving over the some changelog code for ClearCase over from the maven-changelog-plugin. Everything is looking...
Project navigation woes ... December 06, 2003
I am certainly not unbiased but I'm finding navigating devlopment sites that don't use Maven irritating. I was interested in looking at the code for...
mavenblogs.com is coming! December 05, 2003
In an attempt to try and collect more information about Maven for users I've registered mavenblogs.com (yes, an unabashed and shameless ripoff of javablogs.com). Bob...
Maven IDE December 04, 2003
After some poking around and looking at existing OSS offerings and commercial offerings I've decided on a few commercial packages as the basis of a...
Maven SCM has landed! November 30, 2003
With many thanks to Emmanuel Venisse the Maven SCM code has finally been moved over into the Apache repositories. The SCM project is an attempt...
New Maven PMC members November 29, 2003
Just a hats off to a few Maven contributors who have given a great deal to the project and have been accepted as Maven PMC...
Maven SCM Project Update November 29, 2003
Over the course of this weekend a general SCM API will be checked into the Maven repository at Apache. Emmanuel Vennise, a long time Maven...
Maven Wagon has landed! November 28, 2003
Maven is generally considered to be a single product at Apache but it has always been slated as an umbrella for several projects. Wagon is...
Maven book and user input September 30, 2003
Bob and I have added some pages in the Maven Wiki to keep users informed about the work being done on the Maven book and...
Maven plugin migration September 29, 2003
Now that 1.0-rc1 is out users have a mechanism whereby plugins can be easily downloaded and installed. So we are now leaning out the core...
Maven 1.0-rc1 released September 29, 2003
The Maven team is pleased to announce Release Candidate 1! maven.apache.org Maven is a Java project management and project comprehension tool. Maven is based on...
Coming back to Maven September 27, 2003
In the last six months there haven't been many significant changes in Maven and that is primarily due to my vigour being sapped by unexpected...