Where to distribute models

[pahjbo]

Models (+ code) are published as a jar file to a maven repository that is then consumed as a dependency in the vodml tooling of child models. This works well as maven repositories have versioning rules within them.

At the moment they are published to the org.javastro group in maven central, as that is a group I own and have permission to publish to. (Note however that all models so far will not show up in standard searches as they have been published as snapshot versions)

From an authority point of view it might be better to publish to a github hosted "packages" repository to take advantage of the inherent permissions in the github organisations. However, this makes them slightly more difficult to consume as each packages repository has to be separately configured on the client side (in contrast to the central repository being built-in)

Another alternative is to host a maven repository at https://www.ivoa.net - the difficulty there is in having a nice CI workflow