diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 74abfa0dfc5..a8d0c1d8f05 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -54,235 +54,246 @@
         <maven>3.0</maven>
     </prerequisites>
 
-    <!-- TODO possibly split into developers/contributors-->
+    <!-- developer = commit access -->
     <developers>
         <developer>
-            <name>Sam Adams</name>
+            <name>Christoph Steinbeck</name>
         </developer>
         <developer>
-            <name>Jonathan Alvarsson</name>
+            <name>Egon Willighagen</name>
         </developer>
         <developer>
-            <name>Rich Apodaca</name>
+            <name>Rajarshi Guha</name>
         </developer>
         <developer>
-            <name>Saravanaraj N Ayyampalayam</name>
+            <name>Miguel Rojas Cherto</name>
         </developer>
         <developer>
-            <name>Ulrich Bauer</name>
+            <name>John May</name>
+            <url>http://www.github.com/johnmay/</url>
+            <organization>EMBL-EBI</organization>
+            <organizationUrl>http://ebi.ac.uk</organizationUrl>
+            <timezone>GMT</timezone>
         </developer>
-        <developer>
+    </developers>
+
+    <contributors>
+        <contributor>
+            <name>Sam Adams</name>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
+            <name>Jonathan Alvarsson</name>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
+            <name>Rich Apodaca</name>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
+            <name>Saravanaraj N Ayyampalayam</name>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
+            <name>Ulrich Bauer</name>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Stephan Beisken</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Arvid Berg</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Ed Cannon</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Fabian Dortu</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Martin Eklund</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Matteo Floris</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Dan Gezelter</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Uli Fechner</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Thorsten Flügel</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Nimish Gopal</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
-            <name>Rajarshi Guha</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Yonquan Han</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Thierry Hanser</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Kai Hartmann</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Tobias Helmus</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Christian Hoppe</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Oliver Horlacher</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Miguel Howard</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Nina Jeliazkova</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Geert Josten</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Dmitry Katsubo</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Jules Kerssemakers</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Anatoli Krassavine</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Stefan Kuhn</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Uli Köhler</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Violeta Labarta</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Jonty Lawson</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Kevin Lawson</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Daniel Leidert</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Edgar Luttmann</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Todd Martin</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
-            <name>John May</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Nathanaël Mazuir</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Stephan Michels</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Scooter Morris</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Peter Murray-Rust</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Carl Mäsak</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Irilenia Nobeli</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Peter Odéus</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Niels Out</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Jerome Pansanel</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Julio Peironcely</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Tomáš Pluskal</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Chris Pudney</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Syed Asad Rahman</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Jonathan Rienstra-Kiracofe</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Mark Rijnbeek</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>David Robinson</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
-            <name>Miguel Rojas Cherto</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Bhupinder Sandhu</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Jean-Sebastien Senecal</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Onkar Shinde</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Sulev Sild</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Bradley Smith</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Ola Spjuth</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Christoph Steinbeck</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Ralf Stephan</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Daniel Szisz</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Aleksey Tarkhov</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Stephan Tomkinson</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Gilleain Torrance</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Andreas Truszkowski</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Paul Turner</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Joerg Wegner</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Yap Chun Wei</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Stephane Werner</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
-            <name>Egon Willighagen</name>            
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        
+        <contributor>
             <name>Lars Willighagen</name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Yong Zhang </name>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
+        </contributor>
+        <contributor>
             <name>Daniel Zaharevitz</name>
-        </developer>
-    </developers>
-
+        </contributor>
+    </contributors>
+    
     <repositories>        
         <repository>
             <id>ebi-repo</id>
@@ -479,7 +490,7 @@
                 <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
                 <version>2.9</version>
                 <configuration>
-                    <aggregate>true</aggregate>
+                    <aggregate>false</aggregate>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>
             <plugin>