Graham Leggett wrote:

>Having said that, it makes no sense to have the release plugin care
>about LATEST, because by definition, building against LATEST isn't
>repeatable, and in order for there to be a release, you need the build
>to be repeatable.

I think this does impact the release plugin as it could offer the ability to resolve the LATEST version at release time.  These builds would be reproducible because the release plugin tags the poms during the release process.  

I think what you're saying is that the build prior to the release build is not guaranteed to have the same dependent artifacts as the release build.  I care about the release build being reproducible.

Pete