Is there ever a valid need to specify relativePath in the parent section of our poms?

I noticed that nearly all of the relativePath entries have been removed from trunk but not branches/2.1. The only existing relativePath entries in trunk are for concurrent-testsuite and command-testsuite ... which I suspect are the results of merged changes from branches/2.1.

I'm asking because I've been trying to understand the site generation for multi-module builds so that I can get this to aggregate at the top level for samples -- BTW, any pointers there are also appreciated :-) . In the process I attempted a site build for server branches/2.1 which failed with the following exception that I suspect is due to relativePath not being set correctly in security-testsuite.


[WARNING] Unable to load parent project from repository: Could not find the model file '/Users/bohn/geronimo-2.1/../pom.xml'. for project unknown [INFO] Skipped "Maven Surefire Report" report, file "surefire-report.html" already exists for the English version.
[INFO] Generate "Plugin documentation" report.
[INFO] Using 2 extractors.
[INFO] Applying extractor for language: java
[INFO] Extractor for language: java found 0 mojo descriptors.
[INFO] Applying extractor for language: bsh
[INFO] Extractor for language: bsh found 0 mojo descriptors.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] FATAL ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] null
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Trace
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.maven.tools.plugin.generator.PluginXdocGenerator.execute(PluginXdocGenerator.java:46) at org.apache.maven.plugin.plugin.PluginReport.generatePluginDocumentation(PluginReport.java:192) at org.apache.maven.plugin.plugin.PluginReport.executeReport(PluginReport.java:141) at org.apache.maven.reporting.AbstractMavenReport.generate(AbstractMavenReport.java:98) at org.apache.maven.plugins.site.ReportDocumentRenderer.renderDocument(ReportDocumentRenderer.java:67) at org.apache.maven.doxia.siterenderer.DefaultSiteRenderer.renderModule(DefaultSiteRenderer.java:239) at org.apache.maven.doxia.siterenderer.DefaultSiteRenderer.render(DefaultSiteRenderer.java:115)
        at 
org.apache.maven.plugins.site.SiteMojo.renderLocale(SiteMojo.java:124)
        at org.apache.maven.plugins.site.SiteMojo.execute(SiteMojo.java:92)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:451) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:558) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalWithLifecycle(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:499) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:478) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:330) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:291) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:142)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:336)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:129)
        at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:287)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)

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