Our enterprise team maintains a settings.xml file that defines various repositories that development teams can use with Maven to build their artifacts.

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>repo_1</id>
        <name>repo_1</name>
        <releases>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
            <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
            <checksumPolicy>warn</checksumPolicy>
        </releases>
        <snapshots>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
            <updatePolicy>interval:15</updatePolicy>
            <checksumPolicy>fail</checksumPolicy>
        </snapshots>
        <url>https://repo1.url.com</url>
        <layout>default</layout>
    </repository>
    <repository>
        <id>repo_2</id>
        <name>repo_2</name>
        <releases>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
        </releases>
        <snapshots>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
        </snapshots>
        <url>https://repo2.url.com</url>
        <layout>default</layout>
    </repository>
</repositories>

Here is my issue: I’d like development teams to phase out the use of repo1 and begin using repo2. However I do not want to force it and would like them to do it over time before I remove repo1 references from the settings.xml file.

Is there a way to do this other than creating separate profiles in the settings.xml file and having the developers deactivate them using the mvn -P=-profilename command?

I basically need to change the order of the repositories to query repo 2 first instead of visa versa

Tried changing in the order in the pom.xml but to no avail