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Major Description
Spark's SBT build currently uses a fork of the sbt-pom-reader plugin but depends on that fork via a SBT subproject which is cloned from https://github.com/scrapcodes/sbt-pom-reader/tree/ignore_artifact_id. This unnecessarily slows down the initial build on fresh machines and is also risky because it risks a build breakage in case that GitHub repository ever changes or is deleted.
In order to address these issues, I propose to publish a pre-built binary of our forked sbt-pom-reader plugin to Maven Central under the org.spark-project namespace.
