What's the purpose of the Maven 3 ciManagement configuration?

Question

I've read the section in the Maven documentation, but I haven't really seen any evidence of plugins using the <ciManagement> tag in a project POM.

My question is:

• Are there CI systems that will use this information in some intelligent way?
• Other than project self-documentation, is there any other benefit to specifying and maintaining this information in my project POM?
• Does Maven itself (or any common plugins) use this information?

Answer 1

for documentation sample http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-compiler-plugin/integration.html

Historically this element was used by continuum for more details see http://maven.apache.org/ref/3.0.4/maven-model/maven.html#class_ciManagement it was possible to define the pom notifiers (mail,irc) and where to send notification.

Answer 2

SonarQube uses the <ciManagement> element of the pom to define the value of its own sonar.links.ci configuration property. This property is mentioned in the SonarQube documentation, but there's no explanation about what is it used for. It turns out it's one more thing to keep up-to-date. I would try to remove it from the pom to see if any visible issue comes up.