As every ASF project, Apache Maven regularly reports to the Apache board about the status of the project. Our latest report (January 21st, 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 * Work on plugin releases to define common 2.2.1 minimum Maven version and Java 5 requirements continues: we created an automated report [1] that shows 33 plugins are ready from 49. Once finished, we expect to start 3.x line of plugins with Maven 3 and Java 6 minimum requirements. * There was a contest to create a new Maven logo and create a mascot: the winning logo is [2] and the winning mascot (officially christened) "The Maven Owl" [3]. Work is now in progress to integrate it to the Maven site. * We're studying Jira migration from Codehaus to Apache for better end-users consistency, since we've got feedback about users lost when requiring to create a Jira account at Codehaus. * Compliance with ASF source header policy We enabled rat check on every build in maven-parent POM 25 to ensure full compliance from now on. Issue closed: this report is the last one with status on this topic. * Community * No new committer this quarter (last added on 2014-08-25) * No new committer this quarter (last added on 2014-03-17) * Mailing List activity Oct..Dec 2013 Jul..Sep 2014 Oct..Dec 2014 User List: 959 723 680 Developers List: 704 980 1506 Users mailing list activity has been reduced a little bit in the last three months whereas the developers mailing list activity has strongly increased within the same time frame. * Releases Core * Maven 3.2.5 (2014-12-20) Plugins * Maven Compiler Plugin 3.2 (2014-10-13) * Maven Assembly Plugin 2.5 (2014-10-26) * Maven Clean Plugin 2.6.1 (2014-10-26) * Maven Surefire Plugin 2.18 (2014-11-01) * Maven Failsafe Plugin 2.18 (2014-11-01) * Maven JXR Plugin 2.5 (2014-11-02) * Maven Assembly Plugin 2.5.1 (2014-11-04) * Maven Toolchains Plugin 1.1 (2014-11-11) * Maven PMD Plugin 3.3 (2014-11-14) * Maven Assembly Plugin 2.5.2 (2014-11-21) * Maven Ant Plugin 2.4 (2014-12-15) * Maven Assembly Plugin 2.5.3 (2014-12-17) * Maven AntRun Plugin 1.8 (2014-12-26) * Maven Surefire Plugin 2.18.1 (2014-12-28) * Maven Failsafe Plugin 2.18.1 (2014-12-28) * Maven EAR Plugin 2.10 (2014-12-31) * Maven Plugin Plugin 3.4 (2015-01-04) * Maven Project Info Reports Plugin 2.8 (2015-01-10) * Maven WAR Plugin 2.6 (2015-01-11) * Maven EJB Plugin 2.5 (2015-01-15) * Maven GPG Plugin 1.6 (2015-01-19) Other * Maven Shared Utils 0.7 (2014-10-17) * Maven Shared Filtering 1.3 (2014-10-18) * Maven Parent POM 25 (2014-10-22) * Maven Plugins Parent POM 26 (2014-10-22) * Maven Shared Parent POM 21 (2014-10-22) * Maven Skins Parent POM 10 (2014-10-22) * Maven Archiver 2.6 (2014-10-31) * Maven Repository Builder 1.0 (2014-11-13) * ASF Parent POM 16 (2014-11-16) * Maven Parent POM 26 (2014-11-16) * Maven Plugins Parent POM 27 (2014-11-16) * Maven Wagon 2.8 (2014-11-16) * Apache Maven Plugin Testing 3.3.0 (2014-12-30) * Maven Plugin Tools 3.4 (2015-01-04) [1] https://builds.apache.org/job/dist-tool-plugin/site/dist-tool-prerequisites.html [2] http://maven.apache.org/images/maven-logo-black-on-white.png [3] http://maven.apache.org/images/mascot-large.png