handle bintray shutdown

[ancho]

https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/

As of now jcenter will not accept any submissions after may 31st.

This has srveral implications for deployment and publishing the binary distribution packages.

[jonbullock]

Shame as sync to Maven Central was very useful.

How about using GitHub releases part to host the release ZIP files? Did a quick search and came across this Gradle plugin: https://github.com/BreadMoirai/github-release-gradle-plugin

[ancho]

I was thinking about that too. On the other hand we can also publish it to the webserver. I am still not quite sure if it is the best idea to bind oneself to much to github.

[ancho]

Hmm....but the plugin looks very useful indeed.

[jonbullock]

Yeah jbake.org was my first thought too.

We could aim to publish to both.

[matthiasblaesing]

You don't need bintray to publish to maven central. Sonatype itself (they host central) offers a staging repository: OSSRH (https://central.sonatype.org/pages/ossrh-guide.html). I use OSSRH for personal projects and the JNA project.

[ancho]

Yes. Thank you. I picked this plugin as a candidate for publishing to sonatype OSSRH

[ancho]

Everything else is already prepared https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/OSSRH-7293

[keilw]

Yes, you can check how UoM did this in unitsofmeasurement/uom-parent#24 and individual tasks for particular subprojects and repos.