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));
            }

          <version>4.0.0+</version>
          <description>
            FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY. This is a unique identifier assigned to each
            resource to allow Maven to merge changes to this resource that take
            place during the execution of a plugin. This field must be managed
            by the generated parser and formatter classes in order to allow it
            to survive model interpolation.

     * 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

            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