All team members needs to select their set of tools to do their work. Therefore, for instance, software developers should not be told to document their work in a wiki. If they are more effective to do their documentation work in a markup language file, stored on a Git repository, then they should use this approach. But each team member needs to have access to all the information relevant for the success of a project or product. This includes all members in their different roles, such as marketing specialists, managers, UI designers, delivery experts and so on. Therefore a wiki is a great tool to make all this information provided by all the stakeholders accessible through one access point.

Confluence, as a team collaboration platform, is designed for this task.

The Maven Extension for Confluence does not provide all forms of import for all kinds of information. In fact, this is just a start. But we think that this approach is very valid to really include all stakeholder and their concerns to work successfully as one team.

Since version 2.0 this extension provides a web API to import version information from an artifact built with Maven.