Besides that, I suppose @author ${user} [1] is not the prefered
option
for the most of us because ${user} resolves to the user name on the
current machine.
I found this [2] handy plugin that makes the values from Git config
available in code template variables. So, I propose that we make this
plugin recommended and that we change the template to something like
* @author ${git_user_name:git_config(user.name)}
${git_user_email:git_config(user.email)}
WDYT?
I wouldn't want to ask devs to install another plugin just to get this to work. Its
gonna be hard enough to ask them to import these into their Eclipse and use it! :)