This contains a dummy parent project. The use case of this is for example the maven-checkstyle plugin call in commons/opendaylight in there the plugin references the spaces_tabs_checks.xml from the parent, it works well for all the childs of commons/opendaylight artifact but when trying to deploy that one itself it breaks because the plugin section will still refer to the parent when there is no parent. This fake parents allow to still set a parent for the commons/opendaylight even if pretty much empty or limited to the bare minimum and yet allow the commons/opendaylight to reference a parent.