I don't know how difficult this would be to implement, but it would be handy to
have a user-definable set of "default" project settings that cascade into the
setting for real projects. Real project can override the cascaded properties as
they see fit.

For example, almost every one of my projects uses the Sventon repository
browser. When it is enabled they all point to the same URL and the same
repository instance. When I start a new project I have to set up Sventon with
these properties (with out typos). It would be easier to have the project
automatically aquire these setting from the cascade.

If at some later date I was to move Sventon to a new location I would like to be
able to change the settings in one place (the top of the cascade) and have all
the projects pick up the change. Currently I would have to edit all of the
projects individually (with out making mistakes).

In the few cases where I do not need the cascaded setting I would like to be
able to override them in the individual projects.

I've used Sventon in my examples, but in practice I always publish JavaDocs and
Junit reports to the same location (relative to the project). I always pick up
the Cobertura coverage report from the same location. I poll the source
repository at the same time schedule. I use the same project-based security for
most of my projects (there are a couple of projects where I need to give
people less access rights).

More importantly I always want the "Trigger even if build is unstable" setting
to be turned on for all projects (I want to see how unstable builds effect down
stream projects). However, we only get this option when we assign the first down
stream project and it's default is off. Since I'm usually concerned with
configuring the down stream project at this point it's easy to forget to set
this flag.