As I mentioned, I think this is already proposed under bugs in JIRA.

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Brett Porter
Team Leader, Core Systems
f2 network ~ everything essential


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dominik Dahlem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Thursday, 24 July 2003 6:03 PM
> To: 'Maven Users List'
> Subject: RE: master property file
> 
> 
> In my opinion, a build.properties file with user settings 
> should be in ${user.home}/.maven/ as Brett pointed out. 
> However, on another level I'd like to share project-specific 
> settings as well in a similar fashion to the extension 
> mechanism of the project.xml file. The settings which are 
> project- rather than user-specific include repository, xdoc, 
> and checkstyle settings. 
> This master project property file can be kept in source
> control and provides a single location for settings shared 
> among sub-projects. Imagine you have 50 sub-projects and each 
> of them contains a project properties file with settings 
> which could well be shared. It's maintenance hell, if 
> properties are likely to change.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dominik
> 

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