Add support for specifying Author and Committer (issue #2199) #4879

Job	Run time
build-only (Java 17)	53s
site (Java 17)	17m 49s
build-and-test Bridged (Java 17)	12m 42s
test (ubuntu, Java 21)	12m 44s
test (windows, Java 21)	11m 52s
test (windows, Java 17)	9m 26s
test (ubuntu, Java 17)	8m 59s
test Java 11 (no-build)	1m 15s
codecov-upload (Upload to codecov.io)	10s
	1h 15m 50s

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