Wicked Good Development Episode 22: Fall 2022 Maven Central Updates

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.

This session features Brian Fox (CTO and Co-Founder), Joel Orlina (Engineering Manager, Maven), Jason Swank (Director of Engineering, Technical Operations) and Lakshmi Mohandas (Senior Product Manager). Listen in as they discuss Maven Central’s relationship with Sonatype, its pain points and how we’re addressing them, and the latest updates that make Maven more unified and powerful than before. 

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Show notes

Hosts

• Kadi Grigg – Host – (Twitter: @kadigrigg)

Panelists

• Brian Fox, CTO and Co-Founder (Twitter: @Brian_Fox)
• Joel Orlina, Engineering Manager, Maven (Twitter: @sonatype_ops)
• Jason Swank, Director of Engineering Technical Operations
• Lakshmi Mohandas, Senior Product Manager

Relevant Links

• Central.sonatype.dev
• Search.maven.org
• Lift

Transcript

Kadi Grigg (00:01):
Hi, my name’s Kadi Grigg, and welcome to another episode of Wicked Good Development, where we talk shop with OSS innovators, experts in the industry, and dig into what’s happening in the developer community. Today we have a panel from Sonatype’s Maven Central leaders: including Brian Fox, co-founder and CTO, Jason Swank, Director of Engineering, Joel Orlina, Engineering Manager for Maven Central, and new to the show is Senior Product Manager, Lakshmi Mohandas. Thank you all for being here today. So back in March we did an episode all about Maven Central’s history, you know, kind of some untold things that aren’t that well known out there in the market. And we also talked about where Maven was at that time, and we teased a little (Read more...)