My Kingdom for a release!

After yet another day of pom.xml and settings.xml and other properties tweaking, I must admit I'm quite satisfied with my Maven 2 builds.

Still it is not completely satisfying...

The main problem I can think of if that almost 2 thirds of the plugins available on the apache and codehaus repositories are not even officially released.

And I'm not even talking about the exotic plugins generating weird things or weaving any exotic kind of AOP ;)...

Some of the core features can completely be ruined from an automatic update to another (my last memory of it is the site plugin now ruined by a beta functionality from the skin plugin...).

Problem is that even released plugins are often tied to beta ones.

So I beg the maven plugin developpers to gather and to try and elaborate a Callisto-like release!

This will benefit to both users and plugin developers.
Even if some plugins are buggier than others, at least it will not feel like walking on a pile of rolling stones all the time ;)