FYI renaming the plugin was discussed on this list a couple of years ago, overall consensus was to keep the current name:
http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=dev%40felix.apache.org&q=subject%3A%22%5C%5BDISCUSS%5C%5D+rename+maven%5C-bundle%5C-plugin+to+bnd%5C-maven%5C-plugin%22&o=oldest&f=1 (note: this was back before the bndtools team developed their bnd-maven-plugin) On Monday, 9 November 2015 at 18:46, Benson Margulies wrote: > I am preparing, at least mentally, to do to [1] to the > maven-bundle-plugin -- to make it require Maven 3.x. > > So, you might think that I need to change the major version number. > This, of course, would have the effect of de-syncing the versions from > bnd versions. Maybe this doesn't bother anyone. > > On the other hand, there's this issue: in theory, names of the form > maven-X-bundle are supposed to be reserved for the actual Apache Maven > Project. I can't really imagine my Maven PMC fellow-members deciding > to hassle another Apache project, but it _could_ be that a better name > would be the felix-bundle-plugin. 'maven' in the artifact-id of a > maven plugin hardly carries a ton of information. And we could set the > version back to 1.0.0. > > Personally, I'd be happy to just bump the version to 4.0.0 and give up > on mirroring bnd version numbers, but I felt compelled for some reason > to offer the community the other idea. > > > > > [1] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/Plugin+migration+to+Maven3+dependencies >
