[jira] [Created] (KAFKA-15249) Verify Connect test-plugins artifact is published to Maven Central

["Chris Egerton (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Chris Egerton created KAFKA-15249:
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             Summary: Verify Connect test-plugins artifact is published to Maven Central
                 Key: KAFKA-15249
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-15249
             Project: Kafka
          Issue Type: Task
    Affects Versions: 3.6.0
            Reporter: Chris Egerton
            Assignee: Chris Egerton
             Fix For: 3.6.0


In KAFKA-14759 we created a separate {{connect/test-plugins}} module to store all testing-only Connect plugins and removed those plugins from existing Connect modules.

These testing-only plugins are intentionally excluded from the project's release file (which can be generated with {{{}./gradlew releaseTarGz{}}}) however, some users may still be relying on them for testing environments.

Although we should refrain from distributing these testing-only plugins with our out-of-the-box distribution of Connect, we should still ensure that they're available on an opt-in basis to users who would like to continue using them. This can be accomplished by publishing them to [Maven Central|https://search.maven.org/], like we do with our other modules.

This will probably happen automatically during the next release (3.6.0) with no further action required. This ticket is just here as a reminder to verify that the artifacts are present in the staging Maven repo when release candidates are published for voting.



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