diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 29846f98964..9b87444d5fd 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1069,9 +1069,13 @@ Release 0.23.5 - UNRELEASED
   NEW FEATURES
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
+
     HADOOP-8923. JNI-based user-group mapping modules can be too chatty on 
     lookup failures. (Kihwal Lee via suresh)
 
+    HADOOP-8930. Cumulative code coverage calculation (Andrey Klochkov via
+    bobby)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES
diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index 372a5eda106..b5b113cf68c 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -655,12 +655,6 @@
         <version>4.0.0</version>
         <scope>compile</scope>
       </dependency>
-      <dependency>
-        <groupId>com.cenqua.clover</groupId>
-        <artifactId>clover</artifactId>
-        <!-- Use the version needed by maven-clover-plugin -->
-        <version>3.0.2</version>
-      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.hsqldb</groupId>
         <artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
@@ -730,11 +724,6 @@
           <artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
           <version>2.3.2</version>
         </plugin>
-        <plugin>
-          <groupId>com.atlassian.maven.plugins</groupId>
-          <artifactId>maven-clover2-plugin</artifactId>
-          <version>3.0.5</version>
-        </plugin>
         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
           <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
@@ -909,54 +898,6 @@
         <build.platform>Mac_OS_X-${sun.arch.data.model}</build.platform>
       </properties>
     </profile>
-
-    <profile>
-      <id>clover</id>
-      <activation>
-        <activeByDefault>false</activeByDefault>
-        <property>
-          <name>clover</name>
-        </property>
-      </activation>
-      <properties>
-        <cloverLicenseLocation>${user.home}/.clover.license</cloverLicenseLocation>
-        <cloverDatabase>${project.build.directory}/clover/hadoop-coverage.db</cloverDatabase>
-      </properties>
-      <build>
-        <plugins>
-          <plugin>
-            <groupId>com.atlassian.maven.plugins</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-clover2-plugin</artifactId>
-            <configuration>
-              <includesAllSourceRoots>true</includesAllSourceRoots>
-              <includesTestSourceRoots>true</includesTestSourceRoots>
-              <licenseLocation>${cloverLicenseLocation}</licenseLocation>
-              <cloverDatabase>${cloverDatabase}</cloverDatabase>
-              <targetPercentage>50%</targetPercentage>
-              <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/clover</outputDirectory>
-              <generateHtml>true</generateHtml>
-              <generateXml>true</generateXml>
-            </configuration>
-            <executions>
-              <execution>
-                <id>clover-setup</id>
-                <phase>process-sources</phase>
-                <goals>
-                  <goal>setup</goal>
-                </goals>
-              </execution>
-              <execution>
-                <id>clover</id>
-                <phase>test</phase>
-                <goals>
-                  <goal>clover</goal>
-                </goals>
-              </execution>
-            </executions>
-          </plugin>
-        </plugins>
-      </build>
-    </profile>
     <profile>
       <id>test-patch</id>
       <activation>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 30f680ff6c7..bb7f9b33793 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -23,6 +23,17 @@ xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xs
   <name>Apache Hadoop Main</name>
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
 
+  <dependencyManagement>
+    <dependencies>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>com.cenqua.clover</groupId>
+        <artifactId>clover</artifactId>
+        <!-- Use the version needed by maven-clover-plugin -->
+        <version>3.0.2</version>
+      </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+  </dependencyManagement>
+
   <distributionManagement>
     <repository>
       <id>apache.staging.https</id>
@@ -243,6 +254,11 @@ xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xs
             </lifecycleMappingMetadata>
           </configuration>
         </plugin>
+        <plugin>
+          <groupId>com.atlassian.maven.plugins</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-clover2-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>3.0.5</version>
+        </plugin>
       </plugins>
     </pluginManagement>
 
@@ -483,6 +499,52 @@ xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xs
         </plugins>
       </build>
     </profile>
-
+    <profile>
+      <id>clover</id>
+      <activation>
+        <activeByDefault>false</activeByDefault>
+        <property>
+          <name>clover</name>
+        </property>
+      </activation>
+      <properties>
+        <cloverLicenseLocation>${user.home}/.clover.license</cloverLicenseLocation>
+        <cloverDatabase>${project.build.directory}/clover/hadoop-coverage.db</cloverDatabase>
+      </properties>
+      <build>
+        <plugins>
+          <plugin>
+            <groupId>com.atlassian.maven.plugins</groupId>
+            <artifactId>maven-clover2-plugin</artifactId>
+            <configuration>
+              <includesAllSourceRoots>true</includesAllSourceRoots>
+              <includesTestSourceRoots>true</includesTestSourceRoots>
+              <licenseLocation>${cloverLicenseLocation}</licenseLocation>
+              <cloverDatabase>${cloverDatabase}</cloverDatabase>
+              <targetPercentage>50%</targetPercentage>
+              <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/clover</outputDirectory>
+              <generateHtml>true</generateHtml>
+              <generateXml>true</generateXml>
+            </configuration>
+            <executions>
+              <execution>
+                <id>clover-setup</id>
+                <phase>process-sources</phase>
+                <goals>
+                  <goal>setup</goal>
+                </goals>
+              </execution>
+              <execution>
+                <id>clover</id>
+                <phase>test</phase>
+                <goals>
+                  <goal>clover</goal>
+                </goals>
+              </execution>
+            </executions>
+          </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+      </build>
+    </profile>
   </profiles>
 </project>