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Simplify SpotBugs PR scoping to onlyAnalyze once upstream early-exit lands #1455

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.github/scripts/compute-spotbugs-skip.sh injects <spotbugs.skip>true</spotbugs.skip> into unchanged modules' poms because SpotBugs applies its onlyAnalyze screener only after per-module setup and class parsing, making the flag ineffective for scoping a large reactor (measured ~17% goal-time trim vs ~88% for the per-module skip).

Upstream tracking issue for the missing early-exit: spotbugs/spotbugs#3796 (open, no implementation yet as of SpotBugs 4.10.2).

Once an upstream release checks onlyAnalyze against the module's class files before analysis setup, replace the injection script with a single -Dspotbugs.onlyAnalyze=<changed packages> flag and delete the script. Which modules get analyzed does not change either way — this is a maintainability simplification, not a behavior or wall-clock change.

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