On 12.03.2012 18:08, ceki wrote: As stated by Joel Orlina in OSSRH-3121 [1], configuration has been prepared for hosting a repository for logback on oss.sonatype. He writes: Configuration has been prepared, now you can: repo_1) Deploy snapshot artifacts into repository https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots repo_2) Deploy release artifacts into the staging repository https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2 Promote staged artifacts into repository 'Releases' repo_3) Download snapshot and release artifacts from group https://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/public repo_4) Download snapshot, release and staged artifacts from staging group https://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/staging I can see use for repo_1 for deploying snapshots and repo_2 for releasing artifacts (to be subsequently synced with Maven Central). However, what use is there for repo_3 and repo_4? I guess one could ignore repo_3 and repo_4 if one has no use for it. What am I missing? I'll keep this list posted on the progress made on the logback repo. Cheers, [1] https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/OSSRH-3121 -- Ceki http://twitter.com/#!/ceki