asiri (SVN) wrote: Asiri, the description of the field should not duplicate the name. - The artifactId should be lowercase, no space, and have a specific format (like xwiki-plugin-alexa); this is an identifier intended for machines, to be able to identify and locate the artifact. - The name should be like a breadcrumb, from general to specific, human readable, separated by dashes (like XWiki Platform - Plugins - Alexa); this is a human readable identifier (name) of the project, intended for humans to quickly see what module this is. - The description should be prose, describing what the module does. It is intended to describe the purpose of the module. I know that most of the modules simply use the name as the description, but that does not add any useful information, thus it is wrong. See http://maven.apache.org/pom.html#More_Project_Information and http://maven.apache.org/ref/current/maven-model/maven.html#class_project -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/