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
>
>
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