I believe m2eclipse does have some built-in completion for that, and yes, I'm interested
-- -- Aldrin Leal, <[email protected]> Master your EC2-fu! Get the latest ekaterminal public beta http://www.ingenieux.com.br/products/ekaterminal/ On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Gary O'Neall <[email protected]>wrote: > Greetings all, > > I am somewhat new to Maven plugin development and would like to ask the > developer community for some feedback and help in developing a plugin to > generate project license metadata compliant with the Software Product Data > Exchange (SPDX) standard. > > The SPDX specification is a standard format for communicating the > components, licenses and copyrights associated with a software package. We > are on version 1.2 of the spec and is in use at several of the SPDX > participating companies (see www.spdx.org for more info). > > The motivation for the plugin was the result of a discussion between Phil > Odence and myself (from SPDX) and Jim Jagielski and Henri Yandell (from > Apache) on ideas for how Apache projects could produce or utilize SPDX. It > was suggested that a maven plugin would substantially reduce the effort for > several Apache projects. > > Over the past couple weeks, I have studied the Maven Mojo and plugin API's > and produced a prototype which will generate an SPDX file based on a POM > file. You can find the code on Github at > https://github.com/goneall/spdx-maven-plugin > > Here's my questions for the Maven Developers: > - Is anyone on the list interested and have some time to collaborate on the > plugin? I'm pretty comfortable on the Java and SPDX output coding, but I'm > new to Maven and could use some experienced review of some of my choices > regarding Maven parameters and implementation. A review of the code would > be most appreciated. I could also post the more specific questions to this > list if that is appropriate. > > - Are there any related efforts I should be aware of? (Note: I did find > another spdx maven plugin on github. I reached out to the author and have > not heard back, so I'm not sure how active the project is). > > - Once the plugin is built and unit tested, what is the best way to make it > more accessible to other developers? > > - A spreadsheet mapping the SPDX properties to either spdx-maven-prototype > configuration parameters or existing Maven model properties can be > downloaded at > > https://github.com/goneall/spdx-maven-plugin/blob/master/SPDX-fields-maven-m > apping.xlsx. Feedback on the prototype choices are welcome. There is also > a proposed longer term mapping, some of which extends the current Maven > model. > > Thanks in advance, > Gary > > > ------------------------------------------------- > Gary O'Neall > Principal Consultant > Source Auditor Inc. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
