Wicked Good Development: A Look at the Past, Present, and Future of Maven Central

Wicked Good Development is dedicated to the future of open source. This space is to learn about the latest in the developer community and talk shop with open source software innovators and experts in the industry.

If you utilize Java or any other JVM, there’s a good chance you know the Maven Central repository. Today’s episode brings long-time maintainers and contributors of Maven Central, Brian Fox, Jason Swank, and Joel Orlina to the mic to rehash the early days of Maven Central, lessons learned from managing open source ecosystems, and bring insight into the platform’s practical software supply chain management capabilities of the past, present, and future.

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Show notes

Guests

• Brian Fox, CTO and Co-Founder, Sonatype 
• Joel Orlina, Engineering Manager, Maven Central
• Jason Swank, Director, Engineering, Maven Central 

Hosts

• Kadi Grigg
• Omar Torres 

Topics Discussed

Maven Central, open source repositories, Apache Maven, Java

References

1. Central grows up, see their history- https://blog.sonatype.com/2011/07/central-grows-up-see-the-history/
2. Why namespacing matters in public open source repositories- https://blog.sonatype.com/why-namespacing-matters-in-public-open-source-repositories

Transcript

Kadi Grigg

Hi, my name is Kadi Grigg and welcome to today’s episode of Wicked Good Development. This is a space to learn about the latest in the developer community and talk shop with OSS, innovators and experts in the industry. Today we have an amazing team from Sona type, including Brian Fox, co-founder and CTO, Jason Swank, Director of Engineering, Joel Orlina Engineering Manager for Maven Central. Thank you guys for being on today. Yeah, thanks for having me.

So today, we’re all here to talk about Central right. And I wanted to just get a little bit of background as to what lense you’re bringing to today’s conversation (Read more...)