How to Skip a Maven Plugin

These days I stumbled over a moldy Thymeleaf based OSGi example. It's a pity the necessary libraries aren't OSGi ready. To be able to run the examples within Eclipse Virgo So I forked the two necessary projects thymeleaf and thymeleaf-spring to build a version 2.1.4.VIRGO ready to use in an OSGi environment like Virgo.

My first build failed to execute the goal sign. My current workaround is to skip the goal in my local build:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
  <configuration>
    <skip>true</skip>
  </configuration>
</plugin>