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What kind of new features would you be happy to see in Apache Maven new major release ?

The ability to have multiple parents (for example one for dependency management, an other for plugins...).

Namespaces for plugins, so they can provide their own Schema/DTD (see Spring). And of course a global XSD for the main config part.

• Mixins
• XML attributes

• Plugins: allowing plugin extensions and the possibility to call a plugin goal from another plugin
• Dependencies management:
  • better/easier control of transitive/non-transitive dependencies (especially for assembly modules)
  • human readable report of dependency resolution process

Also, proper performance measurement of goals and phases, to know which one takes long in a build.

The ability to parallelize goals in a specific phase

In dependency management, the ability of forcing one version to any artifacts of a group.

@OlivierCroisier performance measurement is quite easy if extends AbstractEventSpy (org.apache.maven.eventspy.AbstractEventSpy) you have a listener on all maven events