Telling Maven About Your Team
Maven is a great collaboration tool which you can use to generate developer activity reports, as well as lists of project contributors and mailing lists.
How do I do that?
Most projects have a mailing list which is used to discuss architecture and
implementation. And, from one perspective, projects such as Tomcat,
Maven, and Ant are nothing more than a community of developers who
share a subscription to the same mailing list. Mailing lists are not
just for open source projects; many organizations are starting to use
the same collaborative model used in open, public development. Because
mailing lists are a pivotal part of collaboration, Maven provides a
way for you to specify project mailing lists in project.xml. The following excerpt from
project.xml adds a mailingLists element:
<mailingLists>
<mailingList>
<name>Maven User List</name>
<subscribe>users-subscribe@maven.apache.org</subscribe>
<unsubscribe>users-unsubscribe@maven.apache.org</unsubscribe>
<archive>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=turbine-maven-user</archive>
</mailingList>
<mailingList>
<name>Maven Developer List</name>
<subscribe>dev-subscribe@maven.apache.org</subscribe>
<unsubscribe>dev-unsubscribe@maven.apache.org</unsubscribe>
<archive>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=turbine-maven-dev</archive>
</mailingList>
</mailingLists>There are two types of team members in Maven projects: contributors and developers. While the definition may change for your project, contributors are usually ...
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