Overview

This guide will walk you through

• downloading the latest source code from the trunk of a plugin
• building the plugin
• modifying the plugin source code
• creating JIRA issues
• creating patches and attaching to JIRA
• applying patches retrievd from JIRA
• deploying the plugin to an internal repository for use within your company

Downloading the latest source code from the trunk of a plugin

Maven uses Subversion as it's source control repository. The base subversion repository is located at http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven. Within this structure there are a number of different directories of useful files:

• http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/plugins/trunk - all maven plugins
• http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/sandbox/plugins - sandboxed maven plugins (ones that have not been promoted into common use)
• http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/components/trunk - the maven core itself
• codehaus plugins - see their respective web pages for their location, the general format is svn.codehaus.org/project/trunk

Using your favourite subversion tool, check out the plugin you want (e.g. http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/plugins/trunk/maven-assembly-plugin)

Building the plugin

The trunk should always build via mvn package.