I've got just a developer in my pom : <developer> <name>Paolo Dona'</name> <id>paolod</id> <email>paolo.dona@aplexa.com</email> <organization>Aplexa</organization> <roles> <role/> </roles> <url>http://www.aplexa.com</url> <timezone>+1</timezone> </developer> After running "maven clean maven-developer-activity-plugin:report" I see that my generated developer-activity-report.xml contains no report for the developer (the changelog plugin works so I'm sure the configuration is ok). Here is the file... [cut] <section name="Activity by Developer"> <p>Timeframe: 30 days, Total Commits: 46 Total Number of Files Changed: 340</p> <table> <tr> <th>Name</th> <th>Number of Commits</th> <th>Number of files changed</th> </tr> </table> </section> [cut] But after turning the developer's name to : <name>Paolo Dona</name> and running "maven clean maven-developer-activity-plugin:report" again I can see my activity report set. <section name="Activity by Developer"> <p>Timeframe: 30 days, Total Commits: 46 Total Number of Files Changed: 340</p> <table> <tr> <th>Name</th> <th>Number of Commits</th> <th>Number of files changed</th> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="team-list.html#paolod">Paolo Dona</a> </td> <td>45</td> <td>338</td> </tr> </table> </section> I think the plugin doesn't understand names with the "'" character...