title: How to opensource a Maven plugin?
body: <p>I have a Maven plugin that I want to share with outside world. Is there an official Maven repository I can deploy this plugin too ? What are the steps involved ?</p>
  
  <p>Any links to documentation much appreciated</p>
  
  <p>I've been reading <a href="http://www.sonatype.com/people/2008/11/adding-a-jar-to-a-maven-repository-with-sonatype-nexus/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sonatype.com/people/2008/11/adding-a-jar-to-a-maven-repository-with-sonatype-nexus/</a> but this just seems to describe deploying to internal Nexus repository, wheras I want to deploy to an external repo so any user can use it.</p>