publish to maven central

[sebthom]

Please publish this useful plugin to Maven Central. The process to do so is simple and can be fully automated. https://central.sonatype.org/publish/publish-guide/

We are using this config:

CI step:

- name: Release with Maven
  env:
    GITHUB_USER: ${{ github.actor }}
    GITHUB_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.GH_API_TOKEN }}
    SIGN_KEY: ${{ secrets.GPG_SIGN_KEY }}
    SIGN_KEY_PASS: ${{ secrets.GPG_SIGN_KEY_PWD }}
    SONATYPE_OSSRH_USER: ${{ secrets.SONATYPE_OSSRH_USER }}
    SONATYPE_OSSRH_USER_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SONATYPE_OSSRH_USER_TOKEN }}
  run: |
    set -eu

    # https://github.community/t/github-actions-bot-email-address/17204
    git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
    git config user.email "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
    mvn
       -DdryRun=${DRY_RUN} \
       -Dresume=false \
       -DreleaseVersion=${inputs.RELEASE_VERSION} \
       -DdevelopmentVersion=${inputs.NEXT_DEV_VERSION} \
       clean release:clean release:prepare release:perform

settings.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.2.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.2.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.2.0.xsd">

   <servers>
      <server>
         <id>sonatype-ossrh</id>
         <username>${env.SONATYPE_OSSRH_USER}</username>
         <password>${env.SONATYPE_OSSRH_USER_TOKEN}</password>
      </server>
      <server>
         <id>github-commits</id>
         <username>${env.GITHUB_USER}</username>
         <password>${env.GITHUB_API_KEY}</password>
      </server>
   </servers>

</settings>

project.xml

<project>
   <properties>
      <!--
         use credentials from settings.xml for server with id "github-commits" during maven release
         http://maven.apache.org/maven-release/maven-release-plugin/faq.html#credentials
         https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRELEASE-420
      -->
      <project.scm.id>github-commits</project.scm.id>

      <nexus-staging-maven-plugin.autoReleaseAfterClose>true</nexus-staging-maven-plugin.autoReleaseAfterClose>
      <nexus-staging-maven-plugin.nexusUrl>https://oss.sonatype.org/</nexus-staging-maven-plugin.nexusUrl>
      <skip.nexus-staging-maven-plugin.deploy>${dryRun}</skip.nexus-staging-maven-plugin.deploy>
   </properties>
   <profiles>
      <profile>
         <id>deploy-releases-to-maven-central</id>

         <activation>
            <property>
               <name>env.DEPLOY_RELEASES_TO_MAVEN_CENTRAL</name>
               <value>true</value>
            </property>
         </activation>

         <build>
            <plugins>
               <plugin>
                  <!-- https://github.com/s4u/sign-maven-plugin -->
                  <!-- use a pure Java based GPG plugin instead of maven-gpg-plugin to allow easy cross platform builds -->
                  <groupId>org.simplify4u.plugins</groupId>
                  <artifactId>sign-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                  <version>1.0.1</version>
                  <executions>
                     <execution>
                        <id>sign@verify</id>
                        <phase>verify</phase>
                        <goals>
                           <goal>sign</goal>
                        </goals>
                     </execution>
                  </executions>
               </plugin>
               <plugin>
                  <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
                  <configuration>
                     <skip>true</skip>
                  </configuration>
               </plugin>
               <plugin>
                  <!-- https://help.sonatype.com/repomanager2/staging-releases/configuring-your-project-for-deployment -->
                  <groupId>org.sonatype.plugins</groupId>
                  <artifactId>nexus-staging-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                  <version>1.6.13</version>
                  <extensions>true</extensions>
                  <executions>
                     <execution>
                        <id>deploy@deploy</id>
                        <phase>deploy</phase>
                        <goals>
                           <goal>deploy</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                           <skipNexusStagingDeployMojo>${skip.nexus-staging-maven-plugin.deploy}</skipNexusStagingDeployMojo>
                           <autoReleaseAfterClose>${nexus-staging-maven-plugin.autoReleaseAfterClose}</autoReleaseAfterClose>
                           <serverId>sonatype-ossrh</serverId>
                           <nexusUrl>${nexus-staging-maven-plugin.nexusUrl}</nexusUrl>
                        </configuration>
                     </execution>
                  </executions>
               </plugin>
            </plugins>
         </build>
      </profile>
   </profiles>
</project>

[jesse-gallagher]

This is definitely been on my list for this and a couple other projects for a while now, but I keep not quite getting around to it. This project is a perfect candidate, though, and I'll aim to look into setting up some GitHub actions to handle it for me.