Hi John,
Yes, I have the tags <repositories> and <pluginRepositories>
configured. Actually, the pom is downloaded. 
And I made a custom plugin, deployed it to our internal
repo and everything works fine. I would greatly appreciate some
insight into the maven-metadata and maven-artifact stuff if it exists,
before I starting digging into the code :-). 

Here is what I understood/grabbed from docs :
 - the maven-metadata-xxxx.xml in a group directory contains
 informations about plugins in that group : the prefix for the plugin
 and the version to use. The xxxx matches repositories ids which
 means that the information corresponds to that repository: if I use
 the corresponding pluginrepo, then artifact will use that metadata ;
 - the maven-metadata-xxxx.xml in an artifact's base directory contains
 information about the versions of a plugin :
   - the current (latest ?) version of the artifact ;
   - the current <release>  version and the current <latest> version
   (??) ;
   - the various versions available in the directory ;
   - the timestamp this file was last updated (for updates management
   policy ?).
 - the maven-metadata-xxxx.xml in a versionned artifact's directory
 also contains updates information for the version this directory
 contains (??). I suspect this is only true for snapshots (??).

Questions : 
 - what is the scenario for snapshots ? 
 - is there something special about naming a verisons X.Y.Z-SNAPSHOT ? 

I am puzzled.

regards,
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