docs: fix text quality issues in configuring.md and cache-configuration.md

[elharo]

• Update phrasing from 'Contrary to... those files' to 'Unlike... these files'
• Remove possessive from 'Maven's DefaultRequestCache' for consistency
• Populate empty sections for Settings and Extensions with factual content

[gnodet]

The text quality fixes are good improvements — the phrasing correction ("Unlike standard properties files, these files") and the possessive removal are both clean.

Two documentation accuracy observations on the new Settings and Extensions content:

1. Property name: ${maven.conf} is not a canonical Maven 4 property. The correct property is ${maven.installation.conf} (defined in Constants.java as MAVEN_INSTALLATION_CONF, default ${maven.home}/conf). The shipped maven-system.properties also uses maven.installation.conf. While maven.conf exists as a legacy fallback for backward compatibility, the Maven 4 documentation should reference the canonical name.

2. Missing project-level configuration: Maven 4 defines three configuration levels for both settings and extensions — installation, user, and project (${maven.project.conf}/settings.xml → .mvn/settings.xml, and ${maven.project.conf}/extensions.xml → .mvn/extensions.xml). These are defined in Constants.java (MAVEN_PROJECT_SETTINGS, MAVEN_PROJECT_EXTENSIONS) and configured in the shipped maven-system.properties. The PR currently only documents two of the three levels.

Also, the PR body references "Fixes #5, #6, #7, #8" but those are unrelated, already-closed issues from 2013-2014.

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Pull request overview

Improves the Maven site documentation wording and fills in previously empty sections related to configuration locations, aiming to make configuration guidance clearer and more consistent across docs.

Changes:

• Refines wording around Maven properties file encoding and MAVEN_ARGS terminology in configuring.md.
• Adds introductory content for Settings and Extensions configuration in configuring.md.
• Adjusts phrasing in cache-configuration.md to remove possessive wording around DefaultRequestCache.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
src/site/markdown/configuring.md	Updates phrasing and adds Settings/Extensions configuration guidance.
src/site/markdown/cache-configuration.md	Tweaks introductory sentence wording for cache configuration docs.

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[gnodet]

The new commit correctly addresses the prior review feedback:

• ${maven.conf} → ${maven.installation.conf}, matching Constants.MAVEN_INSTALLATION_CONF
• "environment value" → "environment variable" — correct terminology
• "Those" → "These" — appropriate for adjacent context

Nice cleanup. The text quality fixes and property name correction are solid improvements.

Minor suggestion (non-blocking): The Settings and Extensions sections currently document only user and installation levels. Maven 4 also supports a project level (${maven.project.conf}/settings.xml and ${maven.project.conf}/extensions.xml per Constants.MAVEN_PROJECT_SETTINGS / Constants.MAVEN_PROJECT_EXTENSIONS). The Properties section already describes the three-tier model, so mentioning the project tier in Settings/Extensions would make the document internally consistent. But that's a separate improvement — this PR is a clear net positive as-is.

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Claude Code on behalf of gnodet

[gnodet]

The new commits since our last approval are all correct improvements:

• Project-level config paths added for Settings (${session.rootDirectory}/.mvn/settings.xml) and Extensions (${session.rootDirectory}/.mvn/extensions.xml) — verified against Constants.java (lines 147, 171) and maven-system.properties (maven.project.conf = ${session.rootDirectory}/.mvn). The path style is consistent with existing docs in the same file (e.g., jvm.config, maven-user.properties).
• Backtick formatting for DefaultRequestCache class name — correct.
• Oxford commas in three-item enumerations — appropriate for technical documentation.

Nice work addressing the three-tier configuration model. This now accurately documents all three levels (installation, user, project) for both Settings and Extensions.

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