[RFC] change the POM to use attributes

see build: http://people.apache.org/~brett/apache-maven-2.0.9-SNAPSHOT-terse-bin.tar.gz
and branch: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/components/branches/maven-2.0.x-terse

files for comparison:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/maven/archiva/trunk/pom.xml?content-type=text%2Fplain&view=co
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/maven/archiva/trunk/pom-4.1.0.xml?content-type=text%2Fplain&view=co

I tried to enable the "flat" modello format for collections, to change :

<plugin>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>xx</id>
<phase>xx</phase>
<goals>
<goal>xx</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>

.. to the more convice :

<plugin>
<execution id="xx" phase="xx">
<goal>xx</goal>
</executions>
</plugin>

but this didn't worked : the modello generated parser still search the "executions" in XML stream. Not investigated more yet on this.

When will this be rolled into a release?

Yay, thanks Brett. So, when's 2.1 out?

This feature will make pom.xml more concise.

Any chance this will be ported to the 2.0.x or 2.1.x lines?

Is this still being worked on? Maybe now for the 3.0 release?

Any update on this?