Hi, as a user of Maven and a researcher analyzing what's in Maven central, I would prefer to see
<ciManagement> in the "kept by choice" category as well. While <issueManagement> may be more useful for end-user facing tools, in this day and age of badges pointing to CI servers on Github, I can still see this as useful for consuming tools (or just researchers gathering statistics ;-) As for <distributionManagement> I agree with removing distributionManagement/(repositories|snapshotRepositories) from the consumer POM, but am left wondering about distributionManagement/downloadUrl. Alas, from the documentation [1] I don't quite understand, what downloadUrl means: > is the url of the repository from whence another POM may point to in order to > grab this POM's artifact. In the simplest terms, we told the POM how to > upload it (through repository/url), but from where can the public download > it? This element answers that question. But <downloadElement> seems to be directed at "the public" somehow, so it may be a candidate for the consumer POM. Hope this helps. Andreas [1] <http://maven.apache.org/pom.html#Distribution_Management>
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