This is an optional parent.
If you add this, you will get a list of fixed plugin version. This will affect that the build will be more stabe. In addition you will get some helpful profiles
<parent>
<groupId>de.messetat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>parent</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</parent>
List all availabe profiles of the current pom.
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