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Contributing to Apache Maven
======================

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

  We cannot take the approach outlined below of detecting which remote
  repositories are "really" offline, since offline mode is more of a behavior,
  and this will lead to counter-intuitive results. A different feature may exist
  unimplemented, which is to detect when the network is down and provide better
  feedback for that case. However, when offline mode is declared, nothing

+-----+
<project>
 <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 <parent>
   <groupId></groupId>
   <artifactId></artifactId>
   <version></version>
 </parent>
</project>
+-----+

Extending the POM in the future

  In order to anticipate changes in the structure of the POM as new releases of
  maven occur, the maven inheritance model must be pinned against a particular

Contributing
------------

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
-------
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