Gradle plugin portal page is outdated

[sschuberth]

https://plugins.gradle.org/plugin/com.vanniktech.maven.publish still lists version 0.13.0 as latest.

[vanniktech]

yeah we don't publish there anymore. Only to maven central.

[sschuberth]

That's really unfortunate, as it creates a false impression about the state of this plugin. I usually search Gradle's plugin portal when looking for a plugin for a certain problem, and the only reason why I didn't take a closer look at this plugin so far was that it seemed to not be maintained since 2020.

So I'd propose to either start publishing to the portal again, or unpublish the outdated version.

[vanniktech]

I don't know if unpublishing is allowed and that could potentially break some people, which I would not want.

[gabrielittner]

It seems like there is a way to request marking plugins as deprecated https://github.com/gradle/plugin-portal-requests#deleting-a-plugin-or-version Maybe it's also possible to request that they add a note that it's now published on maven central

[sschuberth]

yeah we don't publish there anymore. Only to maven central.

BTW, is the rationale for this decision available somewhere for reference? I'm curious what's blocking to publish to the portal again.

[gabrielittner]

If I remember correctly we dropped it when automating releases with Github Actions and because with plugin markers having it on Maven Central is enough to making it accessible to everyone. There's nothing directly that speaks against publishing to the portal again, just needs the time investment of setting everything up in our current release flow

[vanniktech]

Yeah what Gabriel said