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Maven: A Developer's Notebook

by Vincent Massol, Timothy M. O'Brien
June 2005
Beginner
224 pages
5h 40m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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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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