diff --git a/boms/user/pom.xml b/boms/user/pom.xml
index b7a62d2923da..2842192f11a9 100644
--- a/boms/user/pom.xml
+++ b/boms/user/pom.xml
@@ -72,10 +72,52 @@
     </issueManagement>
 
     <properties>
+        <!-- Version of WildFly
+        note: a SNAPSHOT version *requires* checkout of WildFly at https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly and build through "mvn clean install"
+        -->
         <version.server>18.0.0.Beta1-SNAPSHOT</version.server>
+        <!-- Version of the maven plugin used to build BOMs -->
         <version.bom-builder-plugin>2.0.0.Beta1</version.bom-builder-plugin>
+        <!-- Protocol to use for communication with remote maven repositories.
+             You can set to 'http' if you are using a maven proxy and 'https'
+             interferes with that. Use 'https' for builds that will be released
+             to non-snapshot public maven repos -->
+        <maven.repository.protocol>https</maven.repository.protocol>
+        <!-- The full remote maven repo URL; can be overridden via -D for special use cases -->
+        <maven.repository.url>${maven.repository.protocol}://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public/</maven.repository.url>
     </properties>
 
+    <repositories>
+        <repository>
+            <releases>
+                <enabled>true</enabled>
+                <updatePolicy>never</updatePolicy>
+            </releases>
+            <snapshots>
+                <enabled>true</enabled>
+                <updatePolicy>never</updatePolicy>
+            </snapshots>
+            <id>jboss-public-repository-group</id>
+            <name>JBoss Public Repository Group</name>
+            <url>${maven.repository.url}</url>
+            <layout>default</layout>
+        </repository>
+    </repositories>
+
+    <pluginRepositories>
+        <pluginRepository>
+            <releases>
+                <enabled>true</enabled>
+            </releases>
+            <snapshots>
+                <enabled>true</enabled>
+            </snapshots>
+            <id>jboss-public-repository-group</id>
+            <name>JBoss Public Repository Group</name>
+            <url>${maven.repository.url}</url>
+        </pluginRepository>
+    </pluginRepositories>
+
     <build>
         <pluginManagement>
             <plugins>