I'll start a vote thread on this then. Thanks everyone!
On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM James Fredley <jamesfred...@apache.org> wrote: > Unlocking the ability to use it in grails-core is enough reason, from my > perspective. > > Everything else is gravy. > > James Fredley > > On 2025/06/27 13:29:34 James Daugherty wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > The Grails Publish Plugin does not have any dependencies on Grails or our > > code. After seeing how many projects had disjointed & problematic > > publishing, I modernized it so that it can be used to publish to maven, > > nexus, or even maven central. The purpose of this plugin was to simplify > > publishing steps, including: > > > > 1. signing with a secring file > > 2. signing with the local gpg command > > 3. publication configuration > > 4. dependency resolution issues in the pom > > 5. supporting several artifact types, including: > > - gradle plugin publishing > > - java platform publishing > > - java components > > - test components > > 6. environment variable driven configuration so a project can easily be > > published to another location > > 7. minimizing load on the target publish location when performing a > release > > 8. forced release detection instead of relying on a project version & the > > project's conventions > > 9. minimize signing tasks to only be performed upon a release > > > > Its code currently lives in the grails-gradle project under grails-core. > > The issue with this is every project in grails-gradle then has to define > > all of the publishing steps manually because the plugin cannot be used. > I > > could split it into yet another gradle subproject, but it seems to make > > sense to publish this to its own location because: > > 1. it needs a different release cadence than grails-core. > > 2. it would allow us to publish our gradle plugins to the gradle plugin > > portal. > > 3. it is not dependent on any grails-core code / is a stand alone plugin > > > > Are people supportive of this subproject becoming its own repo? > > > > Regards, > > James > > >
