dependencymanagement and releaseplugin

[Ian Boston]

I was wondering after the recent rapid changes in the build, how much  
' stomach ' people had for sorting out the dependency and plugin  
management in the build to bring it more inline with something like  
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jackrabbit/trunk/pom.xm

I am happy to do a patch, and I don't think it would change the  
structure of the build, but it might reduce the volume of XML in the  
child poms.

I am also happy to wait, or not do it if the core team don't want it.
Ian