An airhacks.fm conversation with Karl Heinz Marbaise (@khmarbaise) about:

empty pom.xml and plugin versions,

recent Maven, old plugins,

release plugins often,

default plugin versions are hardcoded,

the nice Maven 4 features,

removal of deprecated functionality,

running concurrent Maven builds against the same cache,

concurrent builds make only sense for multi module build,

profiling Maven,

use the most recent Maven version for speed,

Takari build lifecycle by Jason van Zyl,

smaller poms,

separation of concerns: build plugins vs. dependencies,

build pom and consumer pom,

mvn wrapper is part of Apache Maven,

deriving default configuration from super POMs,

offering different POM formats,

experiments with hardcoded build chain,

Maven and GraalVM,

locking down Maven dependencies with GraalVM,

how to contribute to Maven,

Maven for Xmas,