* all other executions until finished.
     * We also lock on a given project to forbid a forked lifecycle to be executed concurrently with the project.
     * TODO: ideally, the builder should take care of the ordering in a smarter way
     * TODO: and concurrency issues fixed with MNG-7157
     */
    private class ProjectLock implements AutoCloseable {
        final Lock acquiredAggregatorLock;

            boolean isBlankVersion = descriptor.getRequiredMavenVersion() == null
                    || descriptor.getRequiredMavenVersion().trim().isEmpty();

            if (isBlankVersion) {
                // only take value from underlying POM if plugin descriptor has no explicit Maven requirement
                descriptor.setRequiredMavenVersion(artifact.getProperty("requiredMavenVersion", null));
            }

     * even as an external parent), the POM will be parsed in a lenient way.  Local POMs
     * are parsed more strictly.
     */
    boolean isProjectBuild();

    /**
     * Specifies whether plugin processing should take place for the built model.
     * This involves merging plugins specified by the {@link org.apache.maven.api.Packaging},
     * configuration expansion (merging configuration defined globally for a given plugin

     * We want to make sure that what is ask for in the execution request overrides what is in the settings.
     * The CLI feeds into an execution request so if a particular value is present in the execution request
     * then we will take that over the value coming from the user settings.
     */
    private static Settings adaptSettings(MavenExecutionRequest request) {
        File localRepo = request.getLocalRepositoryPath();

  latest version of some snapshot artifact. If m2 is offline, SCM operations
  cannot succeed; no artifact downloads can take place, regardless of whether
  they are snapshot versions; artifact deployment cannot take place; certain
  types of tests cannot be setup, since the container used to run them cannot be
  reached or started.

          </association>
        </field>
        <field>
          <name>properties</name>
          <description>
            Extended configuration specific to this profile goes here.
            Contents take the form of {@code &lt;property.name&gt;property.value&lt;/property.name&gt;}
          </description>
          <type>Properties</type>
          <association xml.mapStyle="inline">
            <type>String</type>

            List<ArtifactRepository> remoteRepositories,
            ArtifactRepository localRepository)
            throws RepositoryMetadataStoreException {
        // TODO currently this is first wins, but really we should take the latest by comparing either the
        // snapshot timestamp, or some other timestamp later encoded into the metadata.
        // TODO this needs to be repeated here so the merging doesn't interfere with the written metadata