> (The following is a little off-topic for dependency-maven-plugin
> specifically, but I think it needs to be said.)
>
> For an experience Maven2 user, the value of these docs is immediately
> obvious.
>
> For the newbie, however, there is still the feeling:
>
>    "OK, so now what do I do."

+1 (+2 if I could)

a simple addition in the "About xxx plugin" generated file would do the trick.
For example, if you see 
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-site-plugin/index.html


After the "Goals available:" table, simply add :
"Configuration:
To use this plugin, you will need to add to your pom :
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>  (is this necessary ? 
perhaps not for org.apache.maven.plugins, but for other like 
org.codehaus.mojo...)
        <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
      </plugin>
For more information, see "Guide to Conguring Plug-ins" (link to 
http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-configuring-plugins.html)"


I think this would really help the newbie : personally, for example, it took 
me a long time to discover that naming convention for Maven plugins was 
"maven-xxx-plugin", but for Mojo plugins it is "xxx-maven-plugin".
Carefully reading the plugin documentation would have been sufficient, but...


Is there an existing JIRA entry, or should I create one ?

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