New Apache.org artifact repositories for Maven you should be aware of

I recently tried creating a Maven core integration test using the archetype that the team kindly created. However when I tried to use it I got Unable to find resource 'org.apache.maven.its:maven-it-sample-archetype:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT'.

Turns out this artifact does not live in http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-snapshot-repository - instead I've learned that Apache has new Maven repositories set up now that projects there are slowly adopting.

Wondering why I never heard about it before....

Anyways I added a proxy for https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots-group/ to my local Nexus install. Then I disabled my old proxy for http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-snapshot-repository since the snapshots-group includes the PAO repo. Finally I added the new repo to my 'All Repositories' and 'Public Snapshot Repositories' group in Nexus so that my Maven build will pick it up.

Here is some information I found out about the new repos.

http://www.apache.org/dev/repository-faq.html
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-1896

The new Apache.org artifact repositories - use em' or else.