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If you are using Hudson or Bugzilla you may consider to use the hudson-maven-plugin Hudson Maven Plugin or the Bugzilla Maven Plugin to create the project’s representation on the servers. Creating a product or updating the version information on the Bugzilla server as well as creating or deleting a Hudson job may always be effortless.

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Metadata for your projects may proof invaluable, but for some they are just an additional burden with its benefits never be used. If it happens that SNAPSHOT versions get passed around within your team – or even worse – between different teams, you may welcome metadata within the archive to track the artifact to its sources in your SVN version control system. So the Buildmetadata Maven Plugin may be a tool to use. Before you employ the Projectmetadata Maven Plugin, check if you have use cases for the data preserved. Otherwise you build process will only be slowed down without any gain.

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