Describe the proposal

As today, the definition of the project dependencies, plugin version and configurations and so on is scattered across the root project pom and its sub-modules which complicates i.e. version management and updates as one has to check if the same version is re-defined in any of the module.

Ideally we can use the root POM file for dependencies and plugins management so each sub-module can have simpler references to the artifacts and plugins.