Uploading external libraries to the central repository without being the owner
Hi, we want to make one of our maven projects Open Source. This project uses various libraries (external projects) from the central maven repository, yet 3 libraries (JGraphT 0.8.1, alignapi and org.semanticweb) are not in the repository. I was asked to put these 3 projects into the central repository to make our project executable and available. Thus, I created 3 tickets on Sonatype Nexus Maven Repository in order to upload the 3 libraries. I gave them the names of the external projects, e.g., org.semanticweb. However, two tickets were denied shortly after (alignapi is an invalid groupID or Do you or your organization own the domain semanticweb.org?). I have, as matter of fact, no ownership about these projects and probably got the refusal for this reason. My question is now, how else can I get these 3 libraries to the central repository or make them in any way available so that users can set up and run our program. Do I have to contact the project owners to upload their libraries to the Maven repository? Would it be wiser to include the libraries in our open source project and tell the user to add them to their local Maven repository once the program is set up? I'm not very much acquainted with Maven so far, so I appreciate any ideas and suggestions to solve this problem. Thanks in advance, Patrick
Re: Uploading external libraries to the central repository without being the owner
You best option is to convince the owners of these 3rd party libraries to have them make the artifacts available in the central repo. There are different options for them to do that. /Anders On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 09:17, Patrick Arnold arn...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de wrote: Hi, we want to make one of our maven projects Open Source. This project uses various libraries (external projects) from the central maven repository, yet 3 libraries (JGraphT 0.8.1, alignapi and org.semanticweb) are not in the repository. I was asked to put these 3 projects into the central repository to make our project executable and available. Thus, I created 3 tickets on Sonatype Nexus Maven Repository in order to upload the 3 libraries. I gave them the names of the external projects, e.g., org.semanticweb. However, two tickets were denied shortly after (alignapi is an invalid groupID or Do you or your organization own the domain semanticweb.org?). I have, as matter of fact, no ownership about these projects and probably got the refusal for this reason. My question is now, how else can I get these 3 libraries to the central repository or make them in any way available so that users can set up and run our program. Do I have to contact the project owners to upload their libraries to the Maven repository? Would it be wiser to include the libraries in our open source project and tell the user to add them to their local Maven repository once the program is set up? I'm not very much acquainted with Maven so far, so I appreciate any ideas and suggestions to solve this problem. Thanks in advance, Patrick - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
Re: Uploading external libraries to the central repository without being the owner
https://docs.sonatype.org/display/Repository/Uploading+3rd-party+Artifacts+to+The+Central+Repository But I agree that the best outcome would be to convince the owners of the code to publish it to Central themselves and maintain it there. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart. pgpFs75lLHzC1.pgp Description: PGP signature
