First time I met Jason was at a Codehaus party in Amsterdam in 2003. I miss that portal.
Maven's XML is too element normal for my liking. Attributes where appropruate would be good. Also deps and GAVs needs a shakeup, IMO: <deps> <compile> <dep>com.thoughtworks.xstream:xsteam:1.4.3</dep> </compile> <test> <dep>org.junit:junit:4.12</dep> <dep>org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-java:3.14159</dep> </test> Not being able to grep for specific GAVs is a critical flaw. So I've played with Takari and I like it. I'm able to make super fast builds without it though. The time-pit is all categories of integration test. That Maven's recursion fu is slower than Gradles isn't where time is lost for most *corporate* builds. - Paul