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
>  

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