I think it would be useful to have a separate snapshot repository for maven builds. We could set it up something like this: maven2/ - similar to our existing repository, but does not contain any snapshot builds. maven2-snapshots/ - contains snapshot versions One advantage of this is that we can configure the build to use a release profile that does not allow dependencies from the snapshots repository, so we can make sure that a release build only includes other releases. Also, the snapshot repository would not need to be in SVN or CVS, because each snapshot build will get a date and a build number attached to it. And it seems unlikely that we would need to regenerate an old snapshot. We could also be more open with the permissions in the snapshot repository so that developers can add jars as needed. The regular maven2 repository can be under stricter control updated only by release engineering. Another question is do we want to split the main repository from the plugins repository? Something like this: /maven2-plugin-releases/ /maven2-plugin-snapshots/ I don't see much advantage to this. It provides a little bit more organization, but I'm not sure if it's worth it. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4012000#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...