Publish to maven central

[sixcorners]

It would be nice if this was in maven central.

[vorburger]

Personally I love the current JitPack based set-up, and prefer it, because:

• you don't have to wait for "someone to do a release" - you can just use a Git rev
• you don't have to worry about who has the secret private key to PGP sign releases for maven central etc.

[vorburger]

@cstamas @ianopolous I've changed my mind 😆 about this, because JitPack is (currently) down...

... so I'm now interested in doing this - and happy to help. I'm [personally] specifically interested in this library, and java-multibase which this depends on (so multiformats/java-multibase#32), only - but (personally) not ipfs-shipyard/java-ipfs-http-client#256 (which I don't actively use currently).

Perhaps I could just do a manual one-time deployment already, before we invest into the full automation suggested here?

Let's settle on the <groupId> package namespace here, first.

[vorburger]

Wait, it's actually available on https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.github.multiformats/java-multihash already...

[vorburger]

Wait, it's actually available on https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.github.multiformats/java-multihash already...

No, it's not; mvnrepository.com is (apparently, new?!) just indexing and showing (some?) stuff from Jitpack as well now, that's all.

[vorburger]

Let's settle on the <groupId> package namespace here, first.

I meant here.

[cstamas]

Well, you know, "dogfooding" 😉
Try QmbaoenBMNAJfUx6aR7otYEp4SGxU8CCFXUFxQUfPLHzoF, it is there.
Or https://ipfs.maveniverse.eu/

Ideally join running IPFS daemon and pin the CID above to your instance too (I have two, one in Hungary and one in Denmark, but is still slow).

[cstamas]

Also, Maven can consume CID directly using https://github.com/maveniverse/ipfs and some GH actions (see here: https://github.com/maveniverse/parent/blob/main/.github/workflows/ci.yml#L75-L85 and https://github.com/maveniverse/ipfs/pull/4/changes for ideas

[cstamas]

But in general, yes, publishing to Maven Central would be the best.

[cstamas]

Note: given CID will change on new releases, the DNSLink "enhanced" entry point will be https://ipfs.maveniverse.eu/
That CID above reflects "current state of affairs", but merkle tree root will change whenever new release is added.