/maven/repo-releases contains a maven release repository /maven/repo-snapshots contains a maven snapshot repository Releasing: In order to release a project into this repository ensure the following. Look at this to see https://github.com/guardian/guardian-management/blob/master/pom.xml how the scm and distributionManagement elements are configured: 1) your project is up to date and checked into its repository 2) run update-directory-index.sh to create directory index.html files to help Nexus spider this repository 3) add, commit and push this repository