You should lock down plugin versions in your enterprise pom. Whomever told you 
otherwise was on crack.

Justin

On May 4, 2010, at 7:01 PM, Ravi Luthra <[email protected]> wrote:

> At our company we maintain a top-level enterprise pom that all projects
> inherit. We're considering adding versions to lock down our plugin versions.
> What we are trying to avoid is having our build break because of a
> third-party plugin upgrading on us unexpectedly.
> 
> I've heard that locking down the plugin version is a bad practice mostly
> because of major versions of Maven being released. Is this really a bad
> practice?
> 
> What consequences would we face if we locked down our versions and upgraded
> them on our own, rather than allowing Maven to choose for us?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ravi

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