Standard-project is a basic set of extensions to sbt to codify best practices. - Include standard maven repos - Simplify publishing to svn-based repositories - Create a "build.properties" file in finished products - Compile thrift IDL files if they're present - Fix local & remote repos to be "maven-style" so transitive dependencies work - Adds rules like: - "package-dist" -- build a deployable zip file with included config & scripts - "publish-release" -- atomically bump version number & deploy