> Publishing open source project to Maven is way more difficult than most language ecosystems.
Maybe this is a feature, not a bug. I won't call out the language/repo, but I was able to gain admin access for a library my company published with just an email from my company's domain. There are major security issues with "easy." There are also quality issues. You're more likely to publish something if you think it has value; I've published work to Maven Central, but only the high-quality, reusable work.
Would have to disagree here. Just raising the bar higher for publishing at all doesn't increase quality of libraries available. Consider how open source in general really became much more the norm after Github made it trivially easy to publish and collaborate on code.
Maybe this is a feature, not a bug. I won't call out the language/repo, but I was able to gain admin access for a library my company published with just an email from my company's domain. There are major security issues with "easy." There are also quality issues. You're more likely to publish something if you think it has value; I've published work to Maven Central, but only the high-quality, reusable work.