release 4.9.4.0 introduced reproducibility issues

[hboutemy]

see https://github.com/jvm-repo-rebuild/reproducible-central/blob/master/content/com/github/spotbugs/spotbugs-maven-plugin/README.md

and the diff of introduced issues in groovydoc generated jar files: https://github.com/jvm-repo-rebuild/reproducible-central/blob/master/content/com/github/spotbugs/spotbugs-maven-plugin/spotbugs-maven-plugin-4.9.4.0.diffoscope

[hazendaz]

Thanks. I'll look at groovydocs to disable the timestamps. Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg>

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[hazendaz]

I opened a ticket it gmavenplus as currently the plugin does not support providing options to groovydocs so unfortunately without a lot of hacky logic, timestamps are in there by default. The main artifacts are still all reproducible so not sure how important that it is that groovydocs are not at the moment. I'll wait and see what gmavenplus author responds with before deciding to go very hacky to strip those out in post processing.