As we can see, the skip feature is very useful and the demand is high. Some plugins like DbUnit, Hibernate3, SQL, PMD have implemented this feature. For some others, a jira is created : checkstyle ( http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MCHECKSTYLE-43), antrun (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MANTRUN-65)...
So I wonder, if it will not be better to can manage this feature at the maven or plexus level instead of the plugins level. It could also be interesting to define some categories like : - maven.test.skip - maven.analysis.skip (cf. http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MCHECKSTYLE-43) - ... Rémy