if (Artifact.SCOPE_PROVIDED.equals(inheritedScope)) {
            desiredScope = Artifact.SCOPE_PROVIDED;
        }

        if (Artifact.SCOPE_SYSTEM.equals(scope)) {
            // system scopes come through unchanged...
            desiredScope = Artifact.SCOPE_SYSTEM;
        }

        ArtifactHandler handler = artifactHandlerManager.getArtifactHandler(type);

        return new DefaultArtifact(

                org.eclipse.aether.graph.Dependency pluginDep =
                        RepositoryUtils.toDependency(dependency, session.getArtifactTypeRegistry());
                if (!DependencyScope.SYSTEM.is(pluginDep.getScope())) {
                    pluginDep = pluginDep.setScope(DependencyScope.RUNTIME.id());
                }
                request.addDependency(pluginDep);
            }

            }

            // The temporary file is named destination + ".tmp" and is done this way to ensure
            // that the temporary file is in the same file system as the destination because the
            // File.renameTo operation doesn't really work across file systems.
            // So we will attempt to do a File.renameTo for efficiency and atomicity, if this fails

        </field>
      </fields>
    </class>
    <class>
      <name>ActivationOS</name>
      <version>1.0.0</version>
      <description><![CDATA[
        This is an activator which will detect an operating system's attributes in order to activate
        its profile.
      ]]></description>
      <fields>
        <field>
          <name>name</name>
          <version>1.0.0</version>
          <type>String</type>

attribute org.apache.commons.logging.log is also consulted). Look for a system property named org.apache.commons.logging.Log (for backwards compatibility to pre-1.0 versions of this API, a system property org.apache.commons.logging.log is also consulted). If the Log4J logging system is available in the application class path, use the corresponding wrapper class (Log4JLogger). If the application is executing on a JDK 1.4 system, use the corresponding wrapper class (Jdk14Logger). Fall back to the default...

      </fields>
    </class>
    <class java.clone="deep">
      <name>ActivationOS</name>
      <version>1.0.0+</version>
      <description>
        This is an activator which will detect an operating system's attributes in order to activate
        its profile.
      </description>
      <fields>
        <field>
          <name>name</name>
          <version>1.0.0+</version>
          <type>String</type>

  </description>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org/</url>
  <issueManagement>
    <system>jira</system>
    <url>http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPA</url>
  </issueManagement>
  <ciManagement>
    <system>continuum</system>
    <url>http://maven.zones.apache.org:8080/continuum</url>
    <notifiers>
      <notifier>
        <type>mail</type>
        <configuration>

   | This is a list of authentication profiles, keyed by the server-id used within the system.
   | Authentication profiles can be used whenever maven must make a connection to a remote server.
   |-->
  <servers>
    <!-- server
     | Specifies the authentication information to use when connecting to a particular server, identified by
     | a unique name within the system (referred to by the 'id' attribute below).
     |

h3. Plugins

* Execution model
* Metadata model
* Metadata tooling
 ** Metadata extractor
 ** Metadata reader
 ** Metadata writer
 ** Metadata adapter (if required for the target system)
* Maven packaging and lifecycle
* Maven test harness for plugin execution model
* Eclipse IDE tooling for plugin execution model and metadata model

- we also seem to have information like the plugin lifecycle model that's buried inside the maven execution model

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