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There is only one person and you are not convincing the person much about security nor have to go through any kind of difficult vetting. Just formal stuff about packege naming, properly filled pom.xml and such.

However, you have to sign everything with pgp including updates and that is verified. You also have to own the domain with same path as your packages - meaning name space is larger and name clashes less likely. They actually check this and won't release unless you host project. Which explains why java open source tend to use packages like com.github.my_account.my_project



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