Ability to include precursor projects in reactor only when certain projects are included

[harrisric]

Some modules can be expensive to build therefore you do not want to always include them in the reactor.
However those modules might be a necessary pre-cursor to another module e.g. they are a dependency and run a task which is needed for those modules to complete successfully.
It would be good to have a feature which allowed modules to be included even when unchanged if they are required by one of the changed modules. e.g.

• A requires B
• X requires Y
• X requires Z
  then;
• if A is changed B will also be added to the reactor
• if X is changed Y and Z will also be added to the reactor

[famod]

@harrisric just a heads up: 3.14.4 was deployed to maven central this morning!

[harrisric]

@famod thanks - the new version is in use!