I have in the past wasted hours of effort trying to weed out dependency issues where something has been added for reasons unknown. Removal leads to breakage.
It would be helpful if, inside a POM, it were possible to add a comment element to a dependency. I realise this is possible as an XML comment, however having a POM field would let documentation engines record the comment. The same could be said for dependencies inside dependencyManagement. It would of course have the side effect of auto completion within IDEs showing authors how to "officially" comment on the reason for that work. An idea. James
