sebb> Surely one can allow for differences in the values of these entries?
Different values would make checksum of the archive different.
In the ideal world I must not trust binaries of a release (e.g. during
release vote). I should be able to build exactly the same binaries in my
environment and verify that my checksum matches the one presented for a
vote.
sebb> This was added to make it easier to track back to the builder in case
sebb> there are issues with the build.
Neither history nor comments in build xml mean that.
${user.name} can easily contain private bits.
Vladimir