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I was pretty sure that when you apply a plugin on the root project then all the modules would get that as well, but I see now that's not true..
Was I wrong?
ps:the plugin I'm testing against atm is the shadow one

They have it in ready-to-use as it is added to the root project class loader which is in the ancestry of the other projects' class loaders.
But they are not applied to all projects, that would be quite strange and problematic.

There might be misbehaving plugins that apply themselves to all other projects when applied to the root project, but that is evil cross-project configuration and should not be done.