Does google-cloud-contrib belong in the google-cloud-java BOM?

      <dependency>
        <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
        <artifactId>google-cloud-contrib</artifactId>
        <version>0.62.1-alpha-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-contrib:current} -->
      </dependency>

1. This is itself a BOM (type pom) and has no jar.
2. Presumably it’s contributed code? What’s actually in here? Is this something we support?
3. This is pre-release alpha code.
4. If this should be included, I think it still needs to have its type set to pom for this to work.

[chingor13]

I think that the artifacts contained under contrib (storage nio, spanner jdbc driver, etc) should be contained in the google-cloud-bom, but not the google-cloud-contrib artifact (which is a parent pom for the higher level client library integrations).

[elharo]

It’s worth having a discussion and making some decisions once and for all. Especially with repo splitting we’re doing, I think it makes more sense than ever to move it to its own repo.

And if we are supporting this, in its own repo or here, we need to commit to the API and get it out of alpha.