title: Maven inherited attributes from parent POM
body: <p>I am trying to find an authoritative list of which elements get inherited from a parent POM. Based on <a href="https://support.sonatype.com/entries/20914757-how-does-maven-project-inheritance-work" rel="noreferrer">this page</a></p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>When you inherit a POM, you can choose to live with the inherited POM information or to selectively override it. The following is a list of items a Maven POM inherits from its parent POM:</p>
  <ul>
  <li>identifiers (at least one of groupId or artifactId must be overridden.)</li>
  <li>dependencies</li>
  <li>developers and contributors</li>
  <li>plugin lists</li>
  <li>reports lists</li>
  <li>plugin executions (executions with matching ids are merged)</li>
  <li>plugin configuration</li>
  </ul>
  </blockquote>
  <p>But when I see the effective POM in one of my projects I see it also inherits <code>inceptionYear</code>, <code>description</code> (which is a problem, this should be a description of the POM that contains it, not of its children. What's the point of all children having a description like &quot;The root of all POMs&quot;)</p>
  <p>So is there an actual list or does it just inherit everything from the parent pom? i use some of these properties in the artifact's manifest so I want to add meaningful values</p>