Bintray will be shut down, any plans on moving to Maven Central?

[petertrr]

Bintray will be shut down soon, and Github Code Quality action already reports https://dl.bintray.com/gantsign/maven as well as https://jcenter.bintray.com/ as a soon-to-be-deprecated repository. So I was wondering if there are any plans to deploy the library to Maven Central and can we expect a new release in the nearest future?

[freemanjp]

The problem I have is org.jetbrains.dokka:dokka-fatjar, it's not available on Maven Central. I partially convert it to a skinny jar so it works better with Maven (https://github.com/gantsign/kotlin-maven-plugin-tools/tree/master/dokka-embeddable). But there's still various dependencies mixed in under various licenses (in some cases I've had trouble identifying licenses - JetBrains appears to have forked some of the dependencies). To deploy to Maven Central I have to declare the licence for each artifact, which I can't accurately do for dokka-embeddable.

There are a couple of solutions to this:

• The easiest one is to move the artifact from BinTray to GitHub. I expect this will be the short term solution.
• I think the latest Dokka version has a skinny JAR I can use. But, Dokka has undergone significant refactoring and it's going to take a significant effort for this project to migrate to the new version (These APIs were never really intended for use outside Dokka). Frankly, I haven't had time. Assuming there's a skinny jar I can use, and assuming Dokka is deployed to Maven Central, I should be able to deploy this to Maven Central, it just may be a while until I find the time.

[petertrr]

Thanks for reply and for explanation! Your reasons are understandable. Moving to github packages seems like a reasonable solution that at least won't break existing pipelines in dependent projects. I might try to look into helping with API migration myself, but I as well can't be sure about the free time.

[freemanjp]

@petertrr as of version 0.9.26 new releases are now deployed to GitHub Packages, note that authentication is required to download from GitHub Packages (any valid GitHub token will do) - details in the README.

[petertrr]

Thanks @freemanjp! I've switched to the new version in our project, it works good. We use kotlin-maven-plugin-tools only in release maven profile, so I only needed to add authentication in our CI job, and using GITHUB_TOKEN is fairly straightforward.

[marcelmay]

@freemanjp : org.jetbrains.dokka:dokka-fatjar seems now available on Maven Central: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/jetbrains/dokka/dokka-fatjar/