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• Figure out Maven's approach to properties
  • It seems that there is a mechanism for "releases" that captures the settings of properties used in build the release, for reproducibility
  • It also seems there is a concept in the Release plugin where it substitutes actual values of properties when it makes the "tag", and then puts back the \ ${xxx} variable form when it updates the trunk. This allows the tagged item to be more "independent" of other components - for instance, when it is located in a Maven repository as a downloadable artifact.

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