Why was this `repositories` section included the parent POM. Our POM files should never contain repository definitions, since they are now being uploaded into Maven Central. (IIRC, the JBoss Maven repository has rules that prevent such POMs from being deployed.)

I think what we need to do is to add this to ModeShape's "settings.xml" file (with a URL literal rather than the property usage). We developers can then optionally modify our local settings.xml. I think all of this should be documented in our README.md file.