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Rather than linking to a JAR, I feel the information would be more consumable if hosted on a static site like Github Pages.

Avro supports more than just Java, so while packaging generated Java classes into a JAR is useful, putting the AVSC files into one, I feel, is not.

$ jar -tf test-schema-1.1-avsc.jar
org/spf4j/base/avro/JPackageInfo.avsc
org/spf4j/base/avro/JThrowable.avsc
org/spf4j/base/avro/TestRecord.avsc
org/spf4j/base/avro/JFileLocation.avsc
org/spf4j/base/avro/JStackTraceElement.avsc
org/spf4j/base/avro/LocalKeyValue.avsc
org/apache/avro/logicalTypes/AnyRecord.avsc
codegen.properties
schema_index.properties

Therefore, your comment on the Avro JIRA about "using a maven repo as a schema repo REST service" I feel doesn't quite hold until one unzips the JAR file.

Compare this to using the Confluent Schema Registry Maven Plugin which will publish the AVSC to a versioned, compatibility checked location that only requires an HTTP call to publish/receive.

If you would like to contribute/browse code of that project, you can find it here - https://github.com/confluentinc/schema-registry/tree/master/maven-plugin