a result turning off certain services provided by m2 and providing a coherent
  way of predicting and reporting when network-related failures will take place.
  It means warning users that since the network is missing, certain features and
  operations will be unavailable, rather than simply waiting for those
  operations to fail, then trying to help users decipher the error messages they
  get as a result.

* Implications for Resolution

Contributing
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If you are interested in the development of Maven, please consult the
documentation first and afterward you are welcome to join the developers
mailing list to ask questions or discuss new ideas/features/bugs etc.

Take a look into the [contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md).

License
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This code is under the [Apache License, Version 2.0, January 2004][license].

 maven 1.x and 2.x is that all project parameterization occurs in the POM and not from properties
 files.

 For many of the more advanced features in Maven2 it is critical that POMs be available in the local repository.
 Features like transitive dependencies and the new parent specification mechanism. The problem we run into is
 that currently we have information about a project scattered across the project.xml and the

                            <fail>true</fail>
                            <rules>
                                <requireMavenVersion>
                                    <!-- Some plugin features require a recent Maven runtime to work properly -->
                                    <message>Current version of Maven ${maven.version} required to build the project