diff --git a/continuum-api/pom.xml b/continuum-api/pom.xml
index cd2614b..c647cff 100644
--- a/continuum-api/pom.xml
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@@ -1,30 +1,8 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
-  ~ regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-  ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-  ~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-  ~ with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-  ~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-  ~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-  ~ KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
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-  ~ under the License.
-  -->
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\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/continuum-configuration/pom.xml b/continuum-configuration/pom.xml
index 0ae8ea6..85a54c5 100644
--- a/continuum-configuration/pom.xml
+++ b/continuum-configuration/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
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diff --git a/continuum-core/pom.xml b/continuum-core/pom.xml
index c7e67ea..2f24b6f 100644
--- a/continuum-core/pom.xml
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@@ -1,30 +1,8 @@
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-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
-  ~ regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-  ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
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\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/continuum-data-management/pom.xml b/continuum-data-management/pom.xml
index ccdc377..2adbe73 100644
--- a/continuum-data-management/pom.xml
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@@ -1,30 +1,8 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
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-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
-  ~ regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-  ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
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-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-  ~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
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-  ~ KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-  ~ specific language governing permissions and limitations
-  ~ under the License.
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-
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@@ -84,4 +62,4 @@
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\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/continuum-model/pom.xml b/continuum-model/pom.xml
index 5b23864..010e838 100644
--- a/continuum-model/pom.xml
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@@ -1,30 +1,8 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
-  ~ regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-  ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
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-  ~ with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
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-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-  ~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-  ~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-  ~ KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-  ~ specific language governing permissions and limitations
-  ~ under the License.
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@@ -98,4 +76,4 @@
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     </dependency>
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+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/continuum-notifiers/continuum-notifier-api/pom.xml b/continuum-notifiers/continuum-notifier-api/pom.xml
index 0fc29b6..3c464ca 100644
--- a/continuum-notifiers/continuum-notifier-api/pom.xml
+++ b/continuum-notifiers/continuum-notifier-api/pom.xml
@@ -1,30 +1,8 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
-  ~ regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-  ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-  ~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-  ~ with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-  ~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-  ~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-  ~ KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-  ~ specific language governing permissions and limitations
-  ~ under the License.
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diff --git a/continuum-notifiers/continuum-notifier-irc/pom.xml b/continuum-notifiers/continuum-notifier-irc/pom.xml
index 3ab0448..37d252b 100644
--- a/continuum-notifiers/continuum-notifier-irc/pom.xml
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@@ -1,30 +1,8 @@
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-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
-  ~ regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-  ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
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-  ~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
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diff --git a/continuum-notifiers/continuum-notifier-jabber/pom.xml b/continuum-notifiers/continuum-notifier-jabber/pom.xml
index 247fe6e..92f986f 100644
--- a/continuum-notifiers/continuum-notifier-jabber/pom.xml
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@@ -1,30 +1,8 @@
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-  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
-  ~ regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-  ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
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-  ~ with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
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-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-  ~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
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@@ -41,4 +19,4 @@
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\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/continuum-notifiers/continuum-notifier-msn/pom.xml b/continuum-notifiers/continuum-notifier-msn/pom.xml
index 97eb95c..4335d00 100644
--- a/continuum-notifiers/continuum-notifier-msn/pom.xml
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@@ -1,30 +1,8 @@
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-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
-  ~ regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-  ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
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-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
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diff --git a/continuum-notifiers/continuum-notifier-wagon/pom.xml b/continuum-notifiers/continuum-notifier-wagon/pom.xml
index da45bc3..0aeab9e 100644
--- a/continuum-notifiers/continuum-notifier-wagon/pom.xml
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@@ -1,30 +1,8 @@
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-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
-  ~ regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-  ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
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\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/continuum-notifiers/pom.xml b/continuum-notifiers/pom.xml
index 6393f7c..b2b932f 100644
--- a/continuum-notifiers/pom.xml
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diff --git a/continuum-plexus-application/pom.xml b/continuum-plexus-application/pom.xml
index 4b8fde9..6baa0a1 100644
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diff --git a/continuum-plexus-runtime/pom.xml b/continuum-plexus-runtime/pom.xml
index 445fa6c..950d635 100644
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diff --git a/continuum-release/pom.xml b/continuum-release/pom.xml
index a054f16..c35cf31 100644
--- a/continuum-release/pom.xml
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@@ -17,13 +17,12 @@
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diff --git a/continuum-rpc-client/pom.xml b/continuum-rpc-client/pom.xml
index 21a779f..c98b412 100644
--- a/continuum-rpc-client/pom.xml
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@@ -1,30 +1,8 @@
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-  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
-  ~ regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-  ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
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-  ~ with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-  ~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-  ~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-  ~ KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
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-  ~ under the License.
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@@ -85,4 +63,4 @@
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+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/continuum-security/pom.xml b/continuum-security/pom.xml
index 83052e3..7fc69d9 100644
--- a/continuum-security/pom.xml
+++ b/continuum-security/pom.xml
@@ -1,30 +1,8 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
-  ~ regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-  ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-  ~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-  ~ with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-  ~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-  ~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-  ~ KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-  ~ specific language governing permissions and limitations
-  ~ under the License.
-  -->
-
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
-  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <parent>
     <artifactId>continuum-parent</artifactId>
     <groupId>org.apache.maven.continuum</groupId>
-    <version>1.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.1-alpha-1</version>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <artifactId>continuum-security</artifactId>
@@ -65,5 +43,4 @@
     </plugins>
     -->
   </build>
-</project>
-
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/continuum-store/pom.xml b/continuum-store/pom.xml
index 3b5687a..2e8e36d 100644
--- a/continuum-store/pom.xml
+++ b/continuum-store/pom.xml
@@ -1,30 +1,8 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
-  ~ regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-  ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-  ~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-  ~ with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-  ~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-  ~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-  ~ KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-  ~ specific language governing permissions and limitations
-  ~ under the License.
-  -->
-
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
-  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <parent>
     <artifactId>continuum-parent</artifactId>
     <groupId>org.apache.maven.continuum</groupId>
-    <version>1.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.1-alpha-1</version>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <artifactId>continuum-store</artifactId>
diff --git a/continuum-test/pom.xml b/continuum-test/pom.xml
index 2842be1..7cbb3cd 100644
--- a/continuum-test/pom.xml
+++ b/continuum-test/pom.xml
@@ -1,30 +1,8 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
-  ~ regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-  ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-  ~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-  ~ with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-  ~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-  ~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-  ~ KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-  ~ specific language governing permissions and limitations
-  ~ under the License.
-  -->
-
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
-  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <parent>
     <artifactId>continuum-parent</artifactId>
     <groupId>org.apache.maven.continuum</groupId>
-    <version>1.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.1-alpha-1</version>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <artifactId>continuum-test</artifactId>
diff --git a/continuum-webapp/pom.xml b/continuum-webapp/pom.xml
index a02e634..853db07 100644
--- a/continuum-webapp/pom.xml
+++ b/continuum-webapp/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>continuum-parent</artifactId>
     <groupId>org.apache.maven.continuum</groupId>
-    <version>1.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.1-alpha-1</version>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <artifactId>continuum-webapp</artifactId>
diff --git a/continuum-xmlrpc/pom.xml b/continuum-xmlrpc/pom.xml
index c052cbe..22c113b 100644
--- a/continuum-xmlrpc/pom.xml
+++ b/continuum-xmlrpc/pom.xml
@@ -1,30 +1,8 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
-  ~ regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-  ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-  ~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-  ~ with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-  ~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-  ~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-  ~ KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-  ~ specific language governing permissions and limitations
-  ~ under the License.
-  -->
-
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
-  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <parent>
     <artifactId>continuum-parent</artifactId>
     <groupId>org.apache.maven.continuum</groupId>
-    <version>1.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.1-alpha-1</version>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <artifactId>continuum-xmlrpc</artifactId>
@@ -72,4 +50,4 @@
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
-</project>
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b0551f1..0a24925 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -17,8 +17,7 @@
   ~ specific language governing permissions and limitations
   ~ under the License.
   -->
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
@@ -30,7 +29,7 @@
   <artifactId>continuum-parent</artifactId>
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
   <name>Continuum Project</name>
-  <version>1.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>1.1-alpha-1</version>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org/continuum</url>
   <issueManagement>
     <system>jira</system>
@@ -58,9 +57,9 @@
     </mailingList>
   </mailingLists>
   <scm>
-    <connection>scm:svn:http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/continuum/trunk/</connection>
-    <developerConnection>scm:svn:https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/continuum/trunk/</developerConnection>
-    <url>http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/maven/continuum/trunk/</url>
+    <connection>scm:svn:https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/pom/tags/continuum-parent-1.1-alpha-1</connection>
+    <developerConnection>scm:svn:https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/pom/tags/continuum-parent-1.1-alpha-1</developerConnection>
+    <url>https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/pom/tags/continuum-parent-1.1-alpha-1</url>
   </scm>
   <build>
     <pluginManagement>