It&#x27;s a very painful process to get set up - no doubt it&#x27;s easy after the first time. I&#x27;ve ultimately found it easier to go via bintray: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.bintray.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;11&#x2F;bintray-as-pain-free-gateway-to-maven-central&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.bintray.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;11&#x2F;bintray-as-pain-free-gate...</a> .<p>On the positive side, some of the complexity comes through enforcing some standards about what packages go into central - in particular you must have a properly declared license, developer contact information, and GPG sign your releases. Which are things other language ecosystems would do well to enforce.