What exactly is a Maven Snapshot and why do we need it?

Question

I am a bit confused about the meaning of a Maven Snapshot and why we build one?

Answer 1

This is how a snapshot looks like for a repository and in this case is not enabled, which means that the repository referred in here is stable and there's no need for updates.

    ...
    
        
            lds-main
            LDS Main Repo
            http://code.lds.org/nexus/content/groups/main-repo
            
                false
            
        
    

Another case would be for:

        true

which means that Maven will look for updates for this repository. You can also specify an interval for the updates with tag.