Anthony Vanelverdinghe created MNG-6124:
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Summary: Add <user> section in settings.xml
Key: MNG-6124
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6124
Project: Maven
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Settings
Affects Versions: 3.3.9
Reporter: Anthony Vanelverdinghe
Maven uses the login name (i.e. the system property user.name). In particular,
it uses it in the Maven Archiver, to set the "Built-By" manifest entry.
However, in my opinion this is problematic (see also
[MSHARED-362|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSHARED-362]), because:
- login names can typically only be traced back to a person within an
organization
- outside of an organization, login names may be ridiculous, embarrassing, ...
and I'd guess many people are unaware of the fact that their login name is
disclosed in any artifact they build
Other systems, such as git and hg, actually use the login name as well by
default. However, they allow to set the username in their global configuration.
Maven should allow the same, setting both a username and an e-mail. Either by
having 2 properties username and user e-mail, like git. Or by having a single
property username, where the e-mail can be appended (e.g. Anthony
<[email protected]>) like hg.
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