[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-440?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.... ] Lennart Jörelid commented on FORGE-440: --------------------------------------- But we could possibly add API calls to Forge which inserts comments - say *before* an element. I do agree that the Maven core treats its model in ... uhm ... interesting ways, but one could claim that a tool ridding all POMs of comments is difficult (at best) to use or introduce when dealing with larger POMs. ... because such POMs need to be commented quite a bit to provide some means of explaining *why* some plugins/configuration/properties are present in a parent pom. For instance, a huge parent pom such as https://bitbucket.org/lennartj/nazgul_tools/src/4c72405abda254318338c0527... needs its comments - or the usability of it is reduced even further. If Forge squashes the comments, it is basically impossible to use Forge in any project that values its comments in POMs. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira