Apologies for the late reply.
I think the key here is the perception of the dependency version. You
should actually declare what you need, not what you want :)
Basically, you shouldn't be upgrading to 1.0.1-SNAPSHOT on the core
release until such point as you actually want to use it from core. An
I have a few suggestions for ways to improve the release plugin. I
can post a JIRA issue of course but I wanted to get some general
thoughts before adding an issue.
We are using the release plugin on the MyFaces project. Its working
quite well except for a few issues. I will present a simplifie