> On Aug 5, 2015, at 5:44 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 2:22 AM, Jochen Theodorou <blackd...@gmx.org> wrote: >> >>> It was also mentioned here, that for example publishing snapshot builds to >>> maven central is not allowed. I guess in the release document they are >>> basically to be handled as nightly builds and as such not for the general >>> public, thus only for the dev-list. It was said, that having the SNAPSHOT >>> appendix in the jar name as well as not being able to automatically get >>> them via maven without having to add that "tag" is not enough for the >>> end-user to know for, that this is no official release. And that if such >>> things are going into the distribution repository, they have to be handled >>> as release, including voting and such. For that I guess it does not matter >>> if it is the apache repository or something else. >>> >>> What would happen if a third party would do this? Is the project/apache >>> required to do something about this? I mean if you read this: >>> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201506.mbox/%3CD1B01671.4EE90%25rvesse%40dotnetrdf.org%3E >>> some even see nightly builds, not communicated beyond the dev-list on >>> non-apache servers already as a problem. >>> >>> Let us put that last part a step up... Let us assume someone takes one of >>> the released sources of one of the java projects out there, makes maven >>> artifacts out of it and publishes them at maven central. Is that ok? I mean >>> that is very near the distributor case, so it should be ok, or not? >>> >> >> That is fine. Just make sure that the published org is NOT org.apache.foo > > What do you mean by publishing org in the context of the Maven Central? > > Thanks, > Roman.
Maven Central has rules about what they will and won’t accept. 1. My understanding is they will only accept artifacts that have a groupId of org.apache if they come from the Apache repository manager, except for what would have to be unusual circumstances (they might, for example, accept a new version of a project that has moved to the attic, but I would expect that they would try to confirm that wherever the artifact came from has taken over that project). 2. You cannot publish SNAPSHOTs to Maven Central. See https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-central-repository-upload.html <https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-central-repository-upload.html> Ralph
