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January 2026

Work Package 1 — Security of the Supply Chain

  • Helping add support for GitHub Ruleset into PyGitHub. It is a base library used to enforce branch protection rules in Apache projects – https://github.com/support-and-care/maven-support-and-care/issues/121

Work Package 2 — Maintenance

Work Package 3 — Modernization of Core Feature

  • Make progress in migration of JUnit3 based tests that using AbstractMojoTestCase to JUnit 5 - https://github.com/support-and-care/maven-support-and-care/issues/136
  • Finalising Refactoring of surefire plugin to use only the Junit Platform to run tests for junit3,4,5,6 and TestNG.
  • All tests passing now
  • communication with the community for next steps (release etc..)
  • Java Module support with Maven 4
  • Start writing Blog articles
  • Start to create architecture documentation

Work Package 4 — Documentation

  • Kick off Meeting for "Getting started" documentation.
  • Next goal is to create a small proof of concept to achieve two goals:
  • Compare different technical solutions and approaches to improve navigation for users. For this a small set of content pages (focused on "Getting started with Maven" as Maven Initializer was released in January) should be created/reworked.
  • Requirements for an improved documentation shall be collected and then be the base to search for technical solutions fitting these requirements.
  • Announce the first release of Apache Maven Initializer: https://maven-starter.io
  • Add new features to the Maven Initializer.