This module is part of the Apache Sling project.
Use this for providing configuration to the versions-maven-plugin to filter out some of the known bad versions that exist in central from consideration in the versions:display-dependency-updates report.
Build this project and then define the configuration in your own project pom.xml (or parent pom) with something like this:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>versions-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.8.1</version>
<configuration>
<rulesUri>classpath:///org/apache/sling/build/maven-version-rules.xml</rulesUri>
</configuration>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.sling</groupId>
<artifactId>org.apache.sling.build.version.rules</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>