Are there any "popular" or big name library author...
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Colton Idle
11/21/2025, 6:03 PMAre there any "popular" or big name library authors that self host their artifacts? (basically. not on maven central?) I'm trying to possibly self host (for reasons) and trying to see what the "industry standard" is in terms of hosting the artifacts, but also how the documentation states the inclusion of the artifact repository.
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Eli Graber
11/21/2025, 6:08 PMGoogle hosts their own at maven.google.com
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Colton Idle
11/21/2025, 6:09 PMi guess i should have said, besides mavenCentral() or google() lol. sorry!
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Eli Graber
11/21/2025, 6:11 PMAh well then none that I've encountered 😅
It would definitely be a barrier to using that library for me though.
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John
11/21/2025, 6:13 PMWe do this for netflix OSS: eg. https://netflixoss.jfrog.io/ui/native/gradle-plugins/ and https://netflixoss.jfrog.io/ui/native/maven-oss-releases/ We are using JFrog's cloud offering for this
we also publish to maven central and gradle plugin portal though
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Colton Idle
11/21/2025, 6:13 PMyeah. i could have sworn aws does it.
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Chris Lee
11/21/2025, 8:40 PMall the AWS libraries that I consume or am otherwise aware of are on Maven Central.
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Matthew Von-Maszewski
11/21/2025, 11:14 PMWe have some, but not all, hosted in jfrog / artifactory. These are "internal" items.
Matthew Von-Maszewski
11/21/2025, 11:21 PMoh, forgot ... we moved those artifacts from jfrog / artifactory to S3. We publish to and pull from S3. It was a cost based decision.
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Colton Idle
11/22/2025, 6:21 AMseems like i could self host jfrog/nexus for free (at least to experiment with them). doesn't seem like there are other players in the space
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Adam
11/22/2025, 11:17 AMGoogle Cloud has a Maven repo. I've used it before when Sonatype was being unstable, and it was quick and easy to set up and configure. I think it's basically free, if you're not hosting a lot of data.
Adam
11/22/2025, 11:22 AMI'm also working on a Gradle plugin for using GitHub Releases as repositories, if you're interested? I want something just for quick and easy prototyping, without the hassle of Maven Central publishing.
https://github.com/adamko-dev/github-asset-publish
(I'm making it to avoid the awkward authentication requirement for GitHub Packages - there's no limits on downloading release attachments.)
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John
11/22/2025, 6:10 PMhttps://packagecloud.io supports maven as well. I have used them in the past for personal projects where I also wanted a deb repo (before jfrog supported it, I think)
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Colton Idle
11/22/2025, 6:42 PMOOOH. we use google cloud. maybe hosting a maven repo there might be the easiest. thanks @Adam
Colton Idle
11/22/2025, 6:47 PMill try that plugin out as well. is that different from https://docs.github.com/en/packages/working-with-a-github-packages-registry/working-with-the-apache-maven-registry ?
ive seen some repos (not many) that actually host the artifact on github which seems like it does what your plugin does?
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Adam
11/22/2025, 7:07 PMis that different from https://docs.github.com/en/packages/working-with-a-github-packages-registry/working-with-the-apache-maven-registry ?Yup! Using GitHub Packages is a pain for sharing, because every single consumer must authenticate - even if it's just for read-only access. https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/26634 Which is a pain, because the token has to be set on everyone's local machines and on CI. It's also annoying because every single repo has a different URL. So I want to use 10 different libraries that are all hosted on their repo's GitHub Packages, then I have to add 10 different Maven repos.
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Colton Idle
11/23/2025, 5:32 PMawesome. thanks for the expaliner. starred and maybe worth putting that explainer in the readme in the future when you officially ship
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Colton Idle
11/23/2025, 8:33 PM@Adam also thanks for the tip on GCP artifact hosting. i actually just set that up and it went pretty darn smooth.
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Colton Idle
11/24/2025, 8:45 PMfunny enough. i came across a library on github and it says to use it you can use
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Eli Graber
11/24/2025, 8:46 PMI've seen a few repos try that in the past, and once they got too big GitHub shut them down.
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Colton Idle
11/24/2025, 10:46 PMoh really! its weird but my manager is interested and so id like to shut that down with some proof. let me investigate that.
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Eli Graber
11/25/2025, 12:27 AMa
Adam
11/25/2025, 10:19 AMI've set up the 'github branch repo' thing before. One problem is it breaks the 'Download zip' feature, if someone tries to download the whole repo.
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