The "Packaging" input is a free-text field. This presents 2 problems:
It would be easy for someone to enter an unsupported value
Nexus looks to only support set values: pom, jar, ejb, war, ear, rar, par, maven-archetype, or maven-plugin
We should make this field a drop-down with set options to make it less-fragile.
The packaging actually is free form on nexus; "pom, jar, ejb, war, ear, rar, par, maven-archetype, or maven-plugin" is a list of prepopulated suggestions, but are not required.
The "Packaging" input is a free-text field. This presents 2 problems: