diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index aaa08ea7d..09d5ed337 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ Prometheus uses GitHub to manage reviews of pull requests.
 
 - If you have a trivial fix or improvement, go ahead and create a pull request,
   addressing (with `@...`) the maintainer of this repository (see
-  [MAINTAINERS.md](MAINTAINERS.md)) in the description of the pull request.
+  [MAINTAINERS.md](https://github.com/prometheus/client_java/blob/main/MAINTAINERS.md)) in the
+  description of the pull request.
 
 - If you plan to do something more involved, first discuss your ideas
   on our [mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/prometheus-developers).
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6e62e3577..227cd86af 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@
 
 ## Contributing and community
 
-See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) and the [community section](http://prometheus.io/community/)
+See [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/prometheus/client_java/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) and
+the [community section](http://prometheus.io/community/)
 of the Prometheus homepage.
 
 The Prometheus Java community is present on the [CNCF Slack](https://cloud-native.slack.com) on
@@ -22,4 +23,4 @@ the [simpleclient](https://github.com/prometheus/client_java/tree/simpleclient)
 
 ## License
 
-Apache License 2.0, see [LICENSE](LICENSE).
+Apache License 2.0, see [LICENSE](https://github.com/prometheus/client_java/blob/main/LICENSE).
diff --git a/lychee.toml b/lychee.toml
index 89155f5ab..6dae303b7 100644
--- a/lychee.toml
+++ b/lychee.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 max_retries = 6
 exclude_loopback = true
+cache = true
 
+base = "https://prometheus.github.io"
 exclude_path = ["docs/themes"]
+exclude = ['^https://github\.com/prometheus/client_java/settings', '#']
+
 
diff --git a/mise.toml b/mise.toml
index 3879e1102..3a83daa6d 100644
--- a/mise.toml
+++ b/mise.toml
@@ -38,16 +38,14 @@ run = "./mvnw install -DskipTests"
 run = "scripts/super-linter.sh"
 
 [tasks.lint-links]
-run = "lychee --cache --include-fragments ."
+run = "lychee --include-fragments ."
 
 [tasks.lint-gh-actions]
 run = "zizmor .github/"
 
 [tasks.lint-rest]
 description = "All lints not covered by super linter"
-depends = [
-  #  "lint-links", # try out first
-  "lint-gh-actions"]
+depends = ["lint-links", "lint-gh-actions"]
 
 [tasks.acceptance-test]
 description = "Run OATs acceptance tests"
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b4716bd0b..9dc4cc8f2 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -5,12 +5,17 @@
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
-  <groupId>io.prometheus</groupId>
-  <artifactId>client_java</artifactId>
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>io.prometheus</groupId>
+    <artifactId>client_java_parent</artifactId>
+    <version>1.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <relativePath>prometheus-metrics-parent/pom.xml</relativePath>
+  </parent>
+
   <version>1.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <artifactId>client_java</artifactId>
 
   <name>Prometheus Metrics Library</name>
-  <url>http://github.com/prometheus/client_java</url>
   <description>
     The Prometheus Java Metrics Library
   </description>
@@ -29,40 +34,8 @@
     <warnings>-Werror</warnings>
   </properties>
 
-  <licenses>
-    <license>
-      <name>The Apache Software License, Version 2.0</name>
-      <url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>
-      <distribution>repo</distribution>
-    </license>
-  </licenses>
-
-  <scm>
-    <connection>scm:git:git@github.com:prometheus/client_java.git</connection>
-    <developerConnection>scm:git:git@github.com:prometheus/client_java.git</developerConnection>
-    <url>git@github.com:prometheus/client_java.git</url>
-    <tag>HEAD</tag>
-  </scm>
-
-  <developers>
-    <developer>
-      <id>fstab</id>
-      <name>Fabian Stäber</name>
-      <email>fabian@fstab.de</email>
-    </developer>
-    <developer>
-      <id>zeitlinger</id>
-      <name>Gregor Zeitlinger</name>
-      <email>gregor.zeitlinger@grafana.com</email>
-    </developer>
-    <developer>
-      <id>dhoard</id>
-      <name>Doug Hoard</name>
-      <email>doug.hoard@gmail.com</email>
-    </developer>
-  </developers>
-
   <modules>
+    <module>prometheus-metrics-parent</module>
     <module>prometheus-metrics-bom</module>
     <module>prometheus-metrics-core</module>
     <module>prometheus-metrics-config</module>
diff --git a/prometheus-metrics-bom/pom.xml b/prometheus-metrics-bom/pom.xml
index d676b988e..997a037b0 100644
--- a/prometheus-metrics-bom/pom.xml
+++ b/prometheus-metrics-bom/pom.xml
@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@
 
   <parent>
     <groupId>io.prometheus</groupId>
-    <artifactId>client_java</artifactId>
+    <artifactId>client_java_parent</artifactId>
     <version>1.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <relativePath>../prometheus-metrics-parent/pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>prometheus-metrics-bom</artifactId>
@@ -17,10 +18,6 @@
     Bill of Materials for the Prometheus Metrics library
   </description>
 
-  <properties>
-    <prometheus.metrics.shaded.dependencies.version>1.3.1</prometheus.metrics.shaded.dependencies.version>
-  </properties>
-
   <dependencyManagement>
     <dependencies>
       <dependency>
diff --git a/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-dropwizard/pom.xml b/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-dropwizard/pom.xml
index c0e4b0bf1..b174e7f53 100644
--- a/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-dropwizard/pom.xml
+++ b/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-dropwizard/pom.xml
@@ -21,20 +21,12 @@
     <automatic.module.name>io.prometheus.metrics.instrumentation.dropwizard</automatic.module.name>
   </properties>
 
-  <licenses>
-    <license>
-      <name>The Apache Software License, Version 2.0</name>
-      <url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>
-      <distribution>repo</distribution>
-    </license>
-  </licenses>
   <developers>
     <developer>
       <id>kingster</id>
       <name>Kinshuk Bairagi</name>
       <email>hi@kinsh.uk</email>
     </developer>
-
   </developers>
 
   <dependencies>
diff --git a/prometheus-metrics-parent/pom.xml b/prometheus-metrics-parent/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..61fea98a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/prometheus-metrics-parent/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+  <packaging>pom</packaging>
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+  <groupId>io.prometheus</groupId>
+  <artifactId>client_java_parent</artifactId>
+  <version>1.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+
+  <name>Prometheus Metrics Library Parent</name>
+  <url>http://github.com/prometheus/client_java</url>
+  <description>
+    The Prometheus Java Metrics Library Parent
+  </description>
+
+  <licenses>
+    <license>
+      <name>The Apache Software License, Version 2.0</name>
+      <url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>
+      <distribution>repo</distribution>
+    </license>
+  </licenses>
+
+  <scm>
+    <connection>scm:git:git@github.com:prometheus/client_java.git</connection>
+    <developerConnection>scm:git:git@github.com:prometheus/client_java.git</developerConnection>
+    <url>git@github.com:prometheus/client_java.git</url>
+    <tag>HEAD</tag>
+  </scm>
+
+  <developers>
+    <developer>
+      <id>fstab</id>
+      <name>Fabian Stäber</name>
+      <email>fabian@fstab.de</email>
+    </developer>
+    <developer>
+      <id>zeitlinger</id>
+      <name>Gregor Zeitlinger</name>
+      <email>gregor.zeitlinger@grafana.com</email>
+    </developer>
+    <developer>
+      <id>dhoard</id>
+      <name>Doug Hoard</name>
+      <email>doug.hoard@gmail.com</email>
+    </developer>
+  </developers>
+
+</project>