OSS Repository Hosting

Sonatype uses Nexus to provide Maven repository hosting service for open source projects: http://oss.sonatype.org/. You can deploy snapshots, stage releases, and promote your releases so they will be synced to Maven Central. All you need to do is to sign up a Sonatype JIRA account, create a JIRA ticket and make some POM/settings configuration.

For more information, please go to Sonatype OSS Maven Repository Usage Guide.