integration test modules and maven-release-plugin

I don't really like the idea of having integration tests in a module that is activated by a certain profile. This means that maven-release-plugin will not tag the integration test module unless you run the integration tests when you release:prepare. Not, that doesn't sound too bad, but it seems that between different environments, IT that depends on some manual setup, and the just plain old flakiness of certain maven plugins, having IT run on release is not always optimal. For this reason, I have started having an -it module that is 'always on', but with surefire told to skip tests by default.

I don't know how many other people are in my situation, but I thought I'd just put it out there.