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Contributing to Apache Maven
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You have found a bug or you have an idea for a cool new feature? Contributing
code is a great way to give something back to the open source community. Before
you dig right into the code, there are a few guidelines that we need
contributors to follow so that we can have a chance of keeping on top of
things.

    currently wrong for execution.

    <<NOTE:>> Do we want to fail when we cannot bind a mojo to the lifecycle
    because of offline/online status? That would probably indicate that the user
    was trying to do something they cannot succeed at for now...so we probably

  of the code that references this method, since the container should provide
  some way of recontextualizing the mojo, and all we would need to do is inject
  POM configuration via the lookup method or something.

* PluginDescriptorBuilder

  s/getMojoConfiguration()/getConfiguration()/g

  That should be all there is to it.

* MojoDescriptor

  Remove set/getMojoConfiguration(..), as it will become obsolete.

 So I guess it's important to figure out what people are using properties
 files for and see if we can't incorporate it all into the POM. Or if we do
 have properties file (something I would like to avoid) say they don't
 contribute in any meaningful way to information in the POM. For example a
 properties file could be used the specify $ so it can be interpolated in

<plugins>
  <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version</version>
    <executions>

These particular phases in a plugin’s lifecycle can probably be generalized to all plugins so could be something implemented in all plugins. Here we could have the descriptor either point to methods for each of these phases to execute or we could create a lifecycle in Plexus for these phases.