Release Plugin with Flat Multi-Module Projects

[Neil Chaudhuri]

I have a flat multi-module project as follows:

myapp-parent
--pom.xml
myapp-persistence
--pom.xml
myapp-services
--pom.xml

The parent module is simply inherited by the others, and services aggregates 
persistence.

I am using SVN SCM and Maven Release Plugin 2.0-beta-9. My goal with each 
release is simply to create a folder in the tags directory that looks as 
follows:

<SVN ROOT>/myapp/tags/
--myapp-0.8.0
----myapp-parent-0.8.0
------<All parent files>
----myapp-persistence-0.8.0
------<All persistence files>
----myapp-services-0.8.0
------<All services files>

When I run the Maven Release Plugin at the parent pom level, all I get is this:

<SVN ROOT>/myapp/tags
--myapp-parent-0.8.0
----<All parent files>

Even though it may not be obvious from the high art of dash indentation, I have 
two problems:
1) The parent module is not contained in some "larger" folder beneath 
myapp-0.8.0/tags.
2) It is only the parent module being tagged.

Here is my configuration of the plugin in the parent pom:

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.0-beta-9</version>
                <configuration>
                    <updateWorkingCopyVersions>false</updateWorkingCopyVersions>
                    <goals>clean install</goals>
                    <arguments>-Dmaven.test.skip</arguments>
                    <tagBase>svn://<svn root>/<myapp>/tags</tagBase>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

After doing some research, I discovered the following: 
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRELEASE-261. Here it says that Maven Release 
Plugin 2.0-beta-10 should support multi-module projects and that in fact the 
issue I an seeing is closed.

At long last, here are my questions:

1) Is my desired tag structure (myapp-0.8.0 folder beneath tags and containing 
all the flat modules) possible with the currently released plugin? How would I 
do it?
2) Is the fact I am not tagging the other modules a result of the same issue 
addressed by that JIRA page, or am I mixing things up and just doing something 
wrong with my current configuration? 
3) Will what I want be possible with the next version? When is the next version 
due?
 
Please let me know if I need to clarify anything. I appreciate your insight.

Thanks.