[MNG-4917] Profile not active even though it has activeByDefault set to true

**[Benson Margulies](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=bmargulies)** opened **[MNG-4917](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-4917?redirect=false)** and commented

I've got a parent pom with a profile with \true\.

You can retrieve it for yourself via git clone git://git.apache.org/webservices-xmlschema.git.

The problem is the sourcecheck profile in the parent pom.

running mvn -Psourcecheck works as expected, but running without the -P fails to activate the profile.

the help plugin, I think, has separate problems in this area, or perhaps it's not supposed to look at -P?

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**Affects:** 3.0, 3.8.5

**Attachments:**
- [pom.xml](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12713044/pom.xml) (_2.65 kB_)

**Issue Links:**
- [MNG-8292](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-8292) Rework profile activation
(_**"is part of"**_)

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