diff --git a/changelog.html b/changelog.html
index e86cae88fac306aa271b62cabd784849e62f6b38..44d143e3809cae330908329392147f5da7c8d6e1 100644
--- a/changelog.html
+++ b/changelog.html
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ Upcoming changes</a>
 <!-- Record your changes in the trunk here. -->
 <div id="trunk" style="display:none"><!--=TRUNK-BEGIN=-->
 <ul class=image>
+  <li class="major RFE">
+    The official parent POM for plugins is now hosted in the <code>plugin-pom</code> repository, starting with version 2.0.
+    (<a href="https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-32493">issue 32493</a>)
   <li class="bug">
     Under some conditions a build record could be loaded twice, leading to erratic behavior.
     (<a href="https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-22767">issue 22767</a>)
diff --git a/plugins/pom.xml b/plugins/pom.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 03608296e7ab593f8aec507c4ee58a921761e168..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/plugins/pom.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,665 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
-  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-
-  <parent>
-    <groupId>org.jenkins-ci</groupId>
-    <artifactId>jenkins</artifactId>
-    <version>1.35</version>
-    <relativePath />
-  </parent>
-
-  <groupId>org.jenkins-ci.plugins</groupId>
-  <artifactId>plugin</artifactId>
-  <name>Jenkins plugin POM</name>
-  <version>1.646-SNAPSHOT</version>
-  <packaging>pom</packaging>
-
-  <!--
-    We need the following because the artifactId=plugin but directoryName=plugins, and
-    Maven infers the wrong value if I don't specify it explicitly.
-  -->
-  <scm>
-    <connection>scm:svn:https://svn.jenkins-ci.org/trunk/hudson/plugins/</connection>
-    <developerConnection>scm:svn:https://svn.jenkins-ci.org/trunk/hudson/plugins/</developerConnection>
-    <url>https://svn.jenkins-ci.org/trunk/hudson/plugins/</url>
-    <tag>HEAD</tag>
-  </scm>
-
-  <issueManagement>
-    <system>JIRA</system>
-    <url>http://issues.jenkins-ci.org/</url>
-  </issueManagement>
-
-  <properties>
-    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-    <concurrency>2</concurrency> <!-- may use e.g. 2C for 2 × (number of cores) -->
-    <!-- same version as in org.jenkins-ci.main:pom -->
-    <slf4jVersion>1.7.7</slf4jVersion>
-    <node.version>4.0.0</node.version>
-    <npm.version>2.13.1</npm.version>
-  </properties>
-  <dependencyManagement>
-    <!-- mark logging dependencies as provided by war -->
-    <dependencies>
-      <dependency>
-        <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
-        <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
-        <version>1.1.3</version>
-        <scope>provided</scope><!-- by jcl-over-slf4j -->
-      </dependency>
-      <dependency>
-        <groupId>log4j</groupId>
-        <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
-        <version>1.2.17</version>
-        <scope>provided</scope><!-- by log4j-over-slf4j -->
-      </dependency>
-    </dependencies>
-  </dependencyManagement>
-  <dependencies>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.jenkins-ci.main</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jenkins-war</artifactId>
-      <classifier>war-for-test</classifier>
-      <version>1.646-SNAPSHOT</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.jenkins-ci.main</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jenkins-core</artifactId>
-      <version>1.646-SNAPSHOT</version>
-      <scope>provided</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.jenkins-ci.main</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jenkins-test-harness</artifactId>
-      <version>2.0</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.jenkins-ci</groupId>
-      <artifactId>test-annotations</artifactId>
-      <version>1.2</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <!--
-      Maven is so brain-dead that when a dependency is like:
-
-      plugin -(provided)-> jenkins-core -(compile)-> stapler -(provided)-> servlet-api
-
-      Artifacts beyond the provided/provided dependency will not be made available to the plugin.
-      See this in DefaultArtifactFactory.createArtifact() in the maven-artifact module.
-
-      So for us to have servlet API in the classpath, we need to explicitly list servlet-api.
-    -->
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
-      <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
-      <version>2.4</version>
-      <scope>provided</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <!-- for JRE requirement check annotation -->
-      <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-      <artifactId>animal-sniffer-annotations</artifactId>
-      <version>1.9</version>
-      <scope>provided</scope>
-      <optional>true</optional><!-- no need to have this at runtime -->
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-      <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
-      <version>${slf4jVersion}</version>
-      <scope>compile</scope>
-      <!-- mark the API as optional so it is not packaged in the HPI but available during compile -->
-      <optional>true</optional>
-    </dependency>
-    <!-- make slf4j bindings to java.util.logging available during tests -->
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-      <artifactId>log4j-over-slf4j</artifactId>
-      <version>${slf4jVersion}</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
-      <version>${slf4jVersion}</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-      <artifactId>slf4j-jdk14</artifactId>
-      <version>${slf4jVersion}</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
-  </dependencies>
-
-  <build>
-    <!--
-      Since new versions need to overwrite old versions, it's better
-      not to have version number in the .hpi file name.
-    -->
-    <finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
-    <plugins>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <id>enforce-banned-dependencies</id>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>enforce</goal>
-            </goals>
-            <configuration>
-              <rules>
-                <bannedDependencies>
-                  <excludes>
-                    <exclude>org.sonatype.sisu:sisu-guice</exclude>
-                    <exclude>log4j:log4j:*:jar:compile</exclude>
-                    <exclude>log4j:log4j:*:jar:runtime</exclude>
-                    <exclude>commons-logging:commons-logging:*:jar:compile</exclude>
-                    <exclude>commons-logging:commons-logging:*:jar:runtime</exclude>
-                  </excludes>
-                </bannedDependencies>
-              </rules>
-            </configuration>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.jenkins-ci.tools</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-hpi-plugin</artifactId>
-        <extensions>true</extensions>
-        <configuration>
-          <showDeprecation>true</showDeprecation>
-          <contextPath>/jenkins</contextPath>
-        </configuration>
-      </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.kohsuke.stapler</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-stapler-plugin</artifactId>
-        <!-- version specified in parent pom -->
-        <extensions>true</extensions>
-      </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
-        <!-- version specified in parent pom -->
-        <configuration>
-          <goals>deploy</goals>
-        </configuration>
-      </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.jvnet.localizer</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-localizer-plugin</artifactId>
-        <!-- version specified in parent pom -->
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>generate</goal>
-            </goals>
-            <configuration>
-              <fileMask>Messages.properties</fileMask>
-              <outputDirectory>target/generated-sources/localizer</outputDirectory>
-            </configuration>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
-        <!-- version specified in parent pom -->
-      </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.codehaus.gmaven</groupId>
-        <artifactId>gmaven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <!-- version specified in grandparent pom -->
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <id>test-in-groovy</id>
-            <!-- allow tests written in Groovy -->
-            <goals>
-              <goal>generateTestStubs</goal>
-              <goal>testCompile</goal>
-            </goals>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-        <dependencies>
-          <dependency>
-            <groupId>ant</groupId>
-            <artifactId>ant</artifactId>
-            <version>1.6.5</version>
-          </dependency>
-        </dependencies>
-      </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>2.16</version>
-        <configuration>
-          <systemProperties>
-            <property>
-              <name>hudson.udp</name>
-              <value>33849</value>
-            </property>
-          </systemProperties>
-          <reuseForks>true</reuseForks>
-          <forkCount>${concurrency}</forkCount>
-        </configuration>
-      </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>com.cloudbees</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-license-plugin</artifactId>
-        <!-- version specified in grandparent pom -->
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>process</goal>
-            </goals>
-            <phase>prepare-package</phase>
-            <configuration>
-              <!--requireCompleteLicenseInfo>true</requireCompleteLicenseInfo-->
-              <generateLicenseXml>target/${project.artifactId}/WEB-INF/licenses.xml</generateLicenseXml>
-              <inlineScript><![CDATA[
-                filter {
-                    def plugins = [] as Set
-                    
-                    // collect all Jenkins plugins
-                    models.entrySet().each { e ->
-                        if (e.value.packaging=="hpi")
-                            plugins.add(e.key.id)
-                    }
-                    
-                    // filter out dependencies that don't belong to this plugin
-                    models.entrySet().removeAll(models.entrySet().findAll { e ->
-                        def a = e.key;
-                        
-                        if (a.dependencyTrail.size()>0 && plugins.contains(a.dependencyTrail[1]))
-                            return true; // ignore transitive dependencies through other plugins
-
-                        // if the dependency goes through jenkins core, we don't need to bundle it in the war
-                        // because jenkins-core comes in the <provided> scope, I think this is a bug in Maven that it puts such
-                        // dependencies into the artifact list.
-                        if (a.dependencyTrail.find { trail -> trail.contains(":hudson-core:") || trail.contains(":jenkins-core:") })
-                            return true;
-                            
-                        return false;
-                    })
-                }              
-              ]]></inlineScript>
-            </configuration>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
-    </plugins>
-    <pluginManagement>
-      <plugins>
-        <plugin>
-          <!--
-            Because Eclipse lacks JSR-269 support, put the output
-            to a different directory
-          -->
-          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-          <artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
-          <configuration>
-            <buildOutputDirectory>target/eclipse-classes</buildOutputDirectory>
-            <additionalProjectnatures>
-              <!-- enable Groovy nature by default for DSLD support  -->
-              <projectnature>org.eclipse.jdt.groovy.core.groovyNature</projectnature>
-            </additionalProjectnatures>
-          </configuration>
-        </plugin>
-        <!--
-            This plugin's configuration is used to store Eclipse m2e settings only. It has no influence on the Maven build itself.
-            the plugins mention here are the ones we do not have direct control over, but are used for a jenkins plugin - all other
-            will be changed to in there source to support eclipse soon (hpi, license, localizer, access-modifier). 
-            see also: http://wiki.eclipse.org/M2E_compatible_maven_plugins
-        -->
-        <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.eclipse.m2e</groupId>
-            <artifactId>lifecycle-mapping</artifactId>
-            <version>1.0.0</version>
-            <configuration>
-                <lifecycleMappingMetadata>
-                    <pluginExecutions>
-                        <pluginExecution>
-                            <pluginExecutionFilter>
-                                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-                                <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
-                                <versionRange>[1.0,)</versionRange>
-                                <goals>
-                                    <goal>display-info</goal>
-                                </goals>
-                            </pluginExecutionFilter>
-                            <action>
-                                <ignore />
-                            </action>
-                        </pluginExecution>
-                        <pluginExecution>
-                            <pluginExecutionFilter>
-                                <groupId>org.codehaus.gmaven</groupId>
-                                <artifactId>gmaven-plugin</artifactId>
-                                <versionRange>[1.0,)</versionRange>
-                                <goals>
-                                    <goal>testCompile</goal>
-                                    <goal>generateTestStubs</goal>
-                                </goals>
-                            </pluginExecutionFilter>
-                            <action>
-                                <ignore />
-                            </action>
-                        </pluginExecution>
-                    </pluginExecutions>
-                </lifecycleMappingMetadata>
-            </configuration>
-        </plugin>        
-        <plugin>
-          <!-- make sure our code doesn't have 1.6 dependencies except where we know it -->
-          <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-          <artifactId>animal-sniffer-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-          <version>1.9</version>
-          <executions>
-            <execution>
-              <goals>
-                <goal>check</goal>
-              </goals>
-              <phase>test</phase>
-            </execution>
-          </executions>
-          <configuration>
-            <!-- outside <execution> so that we can run 'animal-sniffer:check' from the top without breaking anything  -->
-            <signature>
-              <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo.signature</groupId>
-              <artifactId>java15</artifactId>
-              <version>1.0</version>
-            </signature>
-          </configuration>
-        </plugin>
-      </plugins>
-    </pluginManagement>
-    <extensions>
-      <extension>
-        <groupId>org.kohsuke</groupId>
-        <artifactId>wagon-gitsite</artifactId>
-        <version>0.3.5</version>
-      </extension>
-    </extensions>
-  </build>
-
-  <repositories>
-    <repository>
-      <id>repo.jenkins-ci.org</id>
-      <url>http://repo.jenkins-ci.org/public/</url>
-      <releases>
-        <enabled>true</enabled>
-      </releases>
-      <snapshots>
-        <enabled>false</enabled>
-      </snapshots>
-    </repository>
-  </repositories>
-
-  <pluginRepositories>
-    <pluginRepository>
-      <id>repo.jenkins-ci.org</id>
-      <url>http://repo.jenkins-ci.org/public/</url>
-      <releases>
-        <enabled>true</enabled>
-      </releases>
-      <snapshots>
-        <enabled>false</enabled>
-      </snapshots>
-    </pluginRepository>
-  </pluginRepositories>
-
-  <distributionManagement>
-    <site>
-      <id>github-pages</id>
-      <url>gitsite:git@github.com/jenkinsci/maven-site.git:plugin-parent</url>
-    </site>
-    <snapshotRepository>
-      <id>maven.jenkins-ci.org</id>
-      <url>http://maven.jenkins-ci.org:8081/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
-    </snapshotRepository>
-  </distributionManagement>
-
-  <profiles>
-    <profile>
-      <id>all-tests</id>
-      <activation>
-        <property>
-          <name>!test</name>
-        </property>
-      </activation>
-      <properties>
-        <maven.test.redirectTestOutputToFile>true</maven.test.redirectTestOutputToFile>
-      </properties>
-    </profile>
-    
-    <profile>
-      <id>node-classifier-linux</id>
-      <activation>
-        <os>
-          <family>Linux</family>
-          <arch>amd64</arch>
-        </os>
-      </activation>
-      <properties>
-        <node.download.file>node-v${node.version}-linux-x64.tar.gz</node.download.file>
-        <node.download.classifier />
-      </properties>
-    </profile>
-    <profile>
-      <id>node-classifier-mac</id>
-      <activation>
-        <os>
-          <family>mac</family>
-        </os>
-      </activation>
-      <properties>
-        <node.download.file>node-v${node.version}-darwin-x64.tar.gz</node.download.file>
-        <node.download.classifier />
-      </properties>
-    </profile>
-    <profile>
-      <id>node-classifier-windows</id>
-      <activation>
-        <os>
-          <family>windows</family>
-          <arch>x64</arch>
-        </os>
-      </activation>
-      <properties>
-        <node.download.file>win-x64/node.exe</node.download.file>
-        <node.download.classifier>/x64</node.download.classifier>
-      </properties>
-    </profile>
-    <profile>
-      <id>node-classifier-windows-amd64</id>
-      <activation>
-        <os>
-          <family>windows</family>
-          <arch>amd64</arch>
-        </os>
-      </activation>
-      <properties>
-        <node.download.file>win-x64/node.exe</node.download.file>
-        <node.download.classifier>/x64</node.download.classifier>
-      </properties>
-    </profile>
-    <profile>
-      <id>node-classifier-windows-x86</id>
-      <activation>
-        <os>
-          <family>windows</family>
-          <arch>x86</arch>
-        </os>
-      </activation>
-      <properties>
-        <node.download.file>win-x86/node.exe</node.download.file>
-        <node.download.classifier />
-      </properties>
-    </profile>
-    <profile>
-      <id>node-download</id>
-      <activation>
-        <file>
-          <exists>package.json</exists>
-        </file>
-      </activation>
-      <build>
-        <plugins>
-          <plugin>
-            <groupId>com.googlecode.maven-download-plugin</groupId>
-            <artifactId>download-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>1.2.1</version>
-            <executions>
-              <execution>
-                <id>get-node</id>
-                <phase>initialize</phase>
-                <goals>
-                  <goal>wget</goal>
-                </goals>
-                <configuration>
-                  <url>https://nodejs.org/dist/v${node.version}/${node.download.file}</url>
-                  <unpack>false</unpack>
-                  <outputDirectory>
-                    ${project.build.directory}/frontend/v${node.version}${node.download.classifier}
-                  </outputDirectory>
-                </configuration>
-              </execution>
-              <execution>
-                <id>get-npm</id>
-                <phase>initialize</phase>
-                <goals>
-                  <goal>wget</goal>
-                </goals>
-                <configuration>
-                  <url>http://registry.npmjs.org/npm/-/npm-${npm.version}.tgz</url>
-                  <unpack>false</unpack>
-                  <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/frontend/</outputDirectory>
-                  <outputFileName>npm-${npm.version}.tgz</outputFileName>
-                </configuration>
-              </execution>
-            </executions>
-          </plugin>
-        </plugins>
-      </build>
-    </profile>
-    <profile>
-      <id>gulp-execution</id>
-      <activation>
-        <file>
-          <exists>gulpfile.js</exists>
-        </file>
-      </activation>
-      <build>
-        <plugins>
-          <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>1.3.1</version>
-            <executions>
-              <execution>
-                <id>enforce-versions</id>
-                <goals>
-                  <goal>enforce</goal>
-                </goals>
-                <configuration>
-                  <rules>
-                    <requireMavenVersion>
-                      <version>3.1.0</version>
-                    </requireMavenVersion>
-                  </rules>
-                </configuration>
-              </execution>
-            </executions>
-          </plugin>
-          <plugin>
-            <groupId>com.github.eirslett</groupId>
-            <artifactId>frontend-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>0.0.23</version>
-
-            <executions>
-
-              <execution>
-                <phase>initialize</phase>
-                <id>install node and npm</id>
-                <goals>
-                  <goal>install-node-and-npm</goal>
-                </goals>
-                <configuration>
-                  <nodeVersion>v${node.version}</nodeVersion>
-                  <npmVersion>${npm.version}</npmVersion>
-                  <!-- Use the pre-download node and npm packages. See download-maven-plugin config above. -->
-                  <downloadRoot>${project.baseUri}target/frontend/</downloadRoot>
-                </configuration>
-              </execution>
-
-              <execution>
-                <phase>initialize</phase>
-                <id>npm install</id>
-                <goals>
-                  <goal>npm</goal>
-                </goals>
-                <configuration>
-                  <!-- Note that this may not be omitted lest maven-release-plugin be confused (frontend-maven-plugin #109): -->
-                  <arguments>install</arguments>
-                </configuration>
-              </execution>
-
-              <execution>
-                <phase>generate-sources</phase>
-                <id>gulp bundle</id>
-                <goals>
-                  <goal>gulp</goal>
-                </goals>
-                <configuration>
-                  <arguments>bundle</arguments>
-                </configuration>
-              </execution>
-
-              <execution>
-                <phase>test</phase>
-                <id>gulp test</id>
-                <goals>
-                  <goal>gulp</goal>
-                </goals>
-              </execution>
-
-            </executions>
-          </plugin>
-        </plugins>
-      </build>
-    </profile>
-    <profile>
-      <id>clean-node</id>
-      <activation>
-        <file>
-          <exists>package.json</exists>
-        </file>
-        <property>
-          <name>cleanNode</name>
-        </property>
-      </activation>
-      <build>
-        <plugins>
-          <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
-            <configuration>
-              <filesets>
-                <fileset>
-                  <directory>node</directory>
-                  <followSymlinks>false</followSymlinks>
-                </fileset>
-                <fileset>
-                  <directory>node_modules</directory>
-                  <followSymlinks>false</followSymlinks>
-                </fileset>
-              </filesets>
-            </configuration>
-          </plugin>
-        </plugins>
-      </build>
-    </profile>
-  </profiles>
-</project>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 91f43338f1b96878b17170c07da7d561e195190e..bcd9c37ee450bf0794f2cf3b54fb040b4b22f6ec 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ THE SOFTWARE.
     <module>war</module>
     <module>test</module>
     <module>cli</module>
-    <module>plugins</module>
   </modules>
 
   <scm>