[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-440?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.... ] Lennart Jörelid edited comment on FORGE-440 at 6/24/13 9:00 PM: ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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. was (Author: lennartj): 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