All good ideas, and (as I get time) I will investigate each of them. I will look more closely at Modello first and try to get a standalone YAML plugin working there (now that I'm aware of it I could use it for my own stuff outside of Maven so I have some incentive there); once that is done I suspect the integration into Maven 3.0.x will be relatlively smooth, as will be building a POM transformer plugin. I finally wrote my first Maven2 plugin on Friday so I am ever so slowly gaining some traction on Maven internals.
I'm not sure how much time in the immediate future I can guarantee, but this is in my own interest (pragmatically and academically) so I will put whatever time I can into it. Thanks for the feedback, keep it coming if there are other ideas/suggestions/tips. Nat
