I’ve seen that error before, it appears to be something internal to Bamboo server (sometimes when the server is too busy, or sometimes the VM doesn’t receive enough CPU time and so on).
It doesn’t seem to be related to the build, I would expect it to be a flakeyness on the server itself.
Absolutely. My current plan is to read that information from the pom.xml file (the same field used during maven releases), I will take a look on it tomorrow.