title: Does using activeByDefault go against maven best practices?
body: <p>I wish to find out whether <strong>Never use <code>&lt;activeByDefault</code>></strong> is a maven best practice?</p>
  
  <p>The advice <a href="http://wayback.archive.org/web/20160312123920/http://www.andrewspencer.net/2011/maven-profile-best-practices/" rel="noreferrer">here</a> around this seems pretty sound, but do you think it's absolute or if there are some cases in which it would not apply ?</p>
  
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