This is a left over from bad choices made decades ago. Now Maven Central has well documented criteria ... very contrary to nearly all other binary repos..
https://central.sonatype.org/pages/ossrh-guide.html https://central.sonatype.org/pages/requirements.html#correct-coordinates And the videos linked on the site in which I explain more as well. Manfred Jonathan Valliere wrote on 2020-02-13 17:06 (GMT -08:00): > I have been growing concerned about the process of allowing the creation of > GroupIDs, within the Maven Central repository, which do not adhere to the > naming guidelines. i.e. the GroupID must belong to a unique domain name > controlled by the project owner. > > Even within the Apache family, there is no consistent naming enforcement. > The project I belong to, org.apache.mina adheres to the conventions but > many others do not. Apache Commons for example uses a different GroupID > for almost every sub-project within its scope. Many of them simply > starting with the word "commons" instead of "org.apache.commons". Does the > PMC have any ideas on how to combat this? > > Cheers, > Jon > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
