The thinking is that we can’t guarantee to users that any random repo is stable, while the Maven Central repo is that.
Of course, we can discuss this and where possible modify and adapt as needed. But we need to start somewhere, otherwise we’ll be working on this forever. Source code, to be donated to Apache: github.com/jpirek/pp3 Gj On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 at 16:53, Neil C Smith <neilcsm...@apache.org> wrote: > On Fri, 11 Oct 2019, 15:21 Sven Reimers, <sven.reim...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I was not asking for a different repository type, but just an additional > > maven repository provider.... > > > > I'm still not sure why we're even requiring Maven, but I guess we can find > out and argue about that when the source is released?! :-/ > > Out of interest, how usable is syncing upstream from Bintray to Maven > Central in practice? Read about it for something a few months back, but > ended up not doing. > > Best wishes, > > Neil > > > >