How to opensource a Maven plugin?

问题:

I have a Maven plugin that I want to share with outside world. Is there an official Maven repository I can deploy this plugin too ? What are the steps involved ?

Any links to documentation much appreciated

I've been reading http://www.sonatype.com/people/2008/11/adding-a-jar-to-a-maven-repository-with-sonatype-nexus/ but this just seems to describe deploying to internal Nexus repository, wheras I want to deploy to an external repo so any user can use it.

回答1:

I would recommend:

• Setting up an account in Github in order to have a place to host your source code.
• Setting up an account in Cloudbee's BuildHive. This is a free Jenkins CI for Open Source projects. This will test your project on every push to Github.
• Request rights to publish your project to Maven Central.

The bit with the request will take around up to a day normally and then you'll be able to publish your code directly to Maven Central.