> > The arguments about quality I just don't buy. We are only talking poms > here. Whatever is in the poms says nothing about the quality of the > software itself.
Quality of metadata. POM serve as "metadata" in this case, so, I'd rather say Central enforces quality of "metadata" (ie. POM properly "filled in", using proper and proven/owned groupId, sane artifactId, etc, minimal set of fields are given, file signatures, checksums are present, no update of already deployed stuff happens [ie. your deploy request would overwrite something in Cenral] etc). Still, you can deploy a jar full of zeroes to Central if you wish, all until you use proper GA, the checksums and signatures matches, and POM fulfills minimal requirements :) My 5 cents
