I've been watching the discussions about introducing a fix set of plugin versions per Maven version. I see benefit and drawback to each side of the argument.
Here is another proposal which is dear to my pain :-) Provide the minimal compatible version of each plugin (of group org.apache.maven.plugins) in the super pom. For instance, when I upgraded to Maven 2.0.8, it would have been nice (stupendous!) to automatically be bumped to surefire 2.4 because the two truly needed each other in integration testing. I imagine there are other cases when plugins have dependencies on other parts of the Maven core, but I could be wrong. The desire is for children pom to provide the "better" versions if necessary, but Maven should at least provide the minimum versions. Paul
