An airhacks.fm conversation with Robert Scholte (@rfscholte) and Sebastian Daschner (@DaschnerS) about:

Convention over Configuration and Maven, strategies for the "default", dependency versions to "apache" maven plugins, maven default behaviours, configuration hierarchies, Maven and CI/CD like Jenkins, command line options, pom elements, pom properties, the Java EE-stic approach to Maven,

upgrading or downgrading, Maven and Java 11+, Maven.next features, effective POMs, accessing default versions of the plugins,

making Maven configuration as lean as Java EE, Configuration by Exception, listing the current default plugin versions, specifying the versions in POM and overriding them with CLI and system properties.