Github user ahgittin commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-brooklyn/pull/1119#issuecomment-166645937
@geomacy the parent defines the profiles for integration tests and releases
which is common to nearly all brooklyn projects. and the way maven handles
relative paths is that they are preferred to looking in the repo but it will
fall back to the repo if it isn't present. so if someone has checked out all
git projects according to canonical structure, local parent pom changes will be
picked up even in sibling projects without a rebuild. this is standard
practise w maven afaik and required for IDE's to resolve deps for things which
haven't been built.
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