Neither of those are going to happen in the 3.0 time line.

I think we're done to be honest. If JIRA could be trimmed down, by clearing out
the silliness, and starting to validate that issues marks as bugs have been
fixed in 3.x then that will get us most of the way there. For what remains
trying to bug fix and write ITs is really the only thing left I really want to
tackle.

Using SLF4J as the API will really amount to working over time at injecting a
logger with the SLF4J API instead of the Plexus API one. At very least maybe we
can cleanup the Plexus SLF4J stuff so that if we do provide a way to configure
the logging using standard SLF4J stuff it won't change when we change the API
internally. We are doing a lot of logging and tracing work in Nexus and
M2Eclipse right now so some of this might fall out of that and go back into
Maven but if someone else wants to tackle that it would be cool.

There I'm only trying to collect things that we cannot change in 3.0. If I've
seen things like POM changes I've just been pushing it into 3.0.alpha1.