The dist-tool-plugin checks that Maven release process has been fully applied across every artifact, as listed in configuration file.
Results are displayed in 3 reports:
Check Source Release report, for checks about artifacts source release publication,
Check Sites report, for checks about documentation sites associated to artifacts,
Check Index page report, for checks about index pages.
In addition, dist-tool-plugin provides report for some interesting information about Maven artifacts:
Notice that this plugin is actually intended for Maven itself only: if interest is expressed to use it in other context, it would require more configurations.