Offline Mode Design

* UPDATE: 18-April-2005

  We cannot take the approach outlined below of detecting which remote
  repositories are "really" offline, since offline mode is more of a behavior,
  and this will lead to counter-intuitive results. A different feature may exist
  unimplemented, which is to detect when the network is down and provide better
  feedback for that case. However, when offline mode is declared, nothing

     2. append happens at plugin level first, then goal level, independently from phases.
        This means for example that adding pluginA:goal2 to pre-existing (pluginA:goal1, pluginB:goal) will lead to (pluginA:goal1, pluginA:goal2, pluginB:goal)

   * see effective POM as shown by {{{/plugins/maven-help-plugin/effective-pom-mojo.html}<<<help:effective-pom>>>}} to see the effective plugins then goals order.