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You can download the release source from our [download page][maven-download].

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

With respect to development inside an IDE the workspace from which we would like to resolve and retrieve dependencies is a read-only local repository to Mercury which is put at the front-end of the search order of any repository that Mercury will consult for artifacts.

h4. Generation of plugin metadata and packaging