I have a project that published to Sonatype’s OSSRH portal which then published to Maven Central. As we all know Sonatype has shut down OSSRH and moved everyone to Central Portal.
But the old OSSRH publish process would put the artifacts in a staging repository from which I could add something like…
maven {
url = 'https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/<mynamespace>-<incrementingnumber>'
}
…to a gradle build file and then test my release as if the artifacts were being served by Maven Central.
This was really important because almost always the candidate release test process found bugs and we would respin the release before finally publishing the artifacts.
The staging area was critical. I don’t see any documentation that indicates this staging area is supported for Central Portal. Is it supported and I just can’t find it? Is it supported in some other fashion that I don’t recognize in your documentation, or has it been abandoned?