"wolfc" wrote : If we ever want to get well-defined snapshots they must come from the release manager. Why? It's maven-deploy-plugin which "Uploads the project artifacts to the internal remote repository". Far as I can see, we just need a mechanism to restrict a snapshot deployment to one with explicit snapshot dependencies, not the generic X.Y.Z-SNAPSHOT format. S, ALR View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4172319#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...