diff --git a/apache-maven/pom.xml b/apache-maven/pom.xml
index 5c33d3640c..3b264f34ed 100644
--- a/apache-maven/pom.xml
+++ b/apache-maven/pom.xml
@@ -34,6 +34,11 @@
     <distributionFileName>${distributionId}-${project.version}</distributionFileName>
   </properties>
 
+  <scm><!-- remove when git scm url format can accept artifact-id at the end, as automatically inherited -->
+    <connection>scm:git:https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/maven.git</connection>
+    <developerConnection>scm:git:https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/maven.git</developerConnection>
+  </scm>
+
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>