Re: Ivy: Why is there ivyauthor and repository?

On 2026-08-03, Maarten Coene via dev wrote:

> yes it looks you are right, they are ignored by the parser, and thus
> completly ignored.  I guess they exist just for documentation purposes
> of the ivy.xml ?

> But if it turns out they can be used at other places, perhaps we can
> just implement it?

They would have been useful in the SBOM context as well as POM
generation (they might be used to create organization or
distributionManagement, although I'm not sure how well the later match).

I'll create a JIRA ticket for that later.

Stefan