I don't use maven, but people ask for maven POM for my open source project (http://bayou.io), which makes sense.

So I read about maven; I read, and I read, ... still poop. It seems like a chore to publish to maven central repository. I'm lazy, and not the good kind of lazy, the lazy kind of lazy.

Fortunately there is https://jitpack.io/. Once you published your project on github, you've published it to maven world. That removes one step in the whole publication business which is already too messy.

It is great, I highly recommend it!