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+ Make sure you have a [JIRA account](https://issues.apache.org/jira/).
+ Make sure you have a [GitHub account](https://github.com/signup/free).
+ If you're planning to implement a new feature, it makes sense to discuss your changes
  on the [dev list](https://maven.apache.org/mailing-lists.html) first.
  This way you can make sure you're not wasting your time on something that isn't
  considered to be in Apache Maven's scope.

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].

discovered a lookup can be performed to retrieve the primary plugin component. Currently the component would need to be looked up and then the BasicComponentConfigurator would need to configure the component with a given Plexus configuration. We will discuss later how we would retrieve the Plexus configuration required for a given plugin.

When a plugin has a complete and valid configuration, the plugin would be looked up in the Plexus container and be ready to perform any operations requested...