Sonatype and the Foundation of the Maven Community

While the Sonatype Nexus team has been focused on making Nexus an excellent repository manager, we have also been working in many different areas and on many different projects to improve the Maven ecosystem. In this post, I’m going to try to describe the ways in which we’ve tried to help set a solid foundation for continued development. For the past decade, we have tried as much as possible to create social capital and increase technical cohesion among the various projects and interests that define the Maven community. Before I can get into the specific ways that Sonatype contributes to the open source ecosystem surrounding Maven and Nexus, I will need to define those two terms: social capital and technical cohesion, and I will need to discuss Maven’s origins.

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