> I noticed the feature, but, given that the ultimate target for the version numbers is the <dependencyManagement> section of a POM, I'm not sure how useful it is.

Fair enough...I will merge as is. Once you have a pom that has the dependencies defined, we can update the plugin to get the dependencies from the pom.

> may cause us to provide versions for more than we intended to

Just to note anything with a group and artifact will take precedence so unless it is forgotten this should not be a problem.