for (Plugin element : src) {
                    if (element.isInherited() || !element.getExecutions().isEmpty()) {
                        // NOTE: Enforce recursive merge to trigger merging/inheritance logic for executions
                        Plugin plugin = Plugin.newInstance(false);
                        plugin = mergePlugin(plugin, element, sourceDominant, context);

                /*
                 * This is purely for backward-compat with 2.x where <extensions> consisting of a single artifact where
                 * loaded into the core and hence available to plugins, in contrast to bigger extensions that were
                 * loaded into a dedicated realm which is invisible to plugins (MNG-2749).
                 */
                publicArtifacts.addAll(artifacts);
            }
        }