Now that maven-wrapper is available in master of maven-core, the next step would be to make it easy to use. I've created MNG-6917[1] to make it possible to simply call {{mvn wrapper}} However, this requires the plugin to be available. On the other hand, the plugin must be able to download the apache-maven-wrapper distribution.
So I want to release the plugin first, so in Maven Core we can refer to a version we can confirm to work. It has been written from scratch, but is quite small. I want to give everybody the chance to give it a try this week, while I will work on the documentation. Next weekend I want to perform a release of the plugin (starting with 3.0.0) Robert [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6917