Bintray is closing down in May 2021

[akarnokd]

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

I don't fully understand what this means for release processes using gradle-bintray-plugin or how to migrate.

[vanniktech]

Can't we push to mavenCentral directly?

[akarnokd]

There are a few problems:

• The private key is on bintray and can't be extracted, only overwritten. (Maybe @benjchristensen still has it.)
• If we need to generate a new private key, I don't know/remember what to do with it. (It's been years since I setup my own private key for my libraries I release from my machine via your plugin.)
• I don't know how to inject a private key into the GitHub Action. (Having a GH secret string of the key material is one thing, afaik, it has to be imported into a keystore every time so Gradle's sign task can use it.)

[benjchristensen]

I have all the ReactiveX keys.

[vanniktech]

Secrets can be added to GitHub: https://github.com/vanniktech/gradle-maven-publish-plugin/settings/secrets/actions (replace username / repo with target repo):

And then they can be used in GitHub actions:

name: Publish Release

on:
  push:
    tags:
      - '*'

jobs:
  publish:

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Install JDK 8
        uses: actions/setup-java@v1
        with:
          java-version: 1.8

      - name: Upload release
        run: ./gradlew uploadArchives --no-daemon --no-parallel
        env:
          ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_SONATYPE_NEXUS_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.SONATYPE_NEXUS_USERNAME }}
          ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_SONATYPE_NEXUS_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.SONATYPE_NEXUS_PASSWORD }}
          ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY: ${{ secrets.SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY }}
          ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_SIGNING_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.SIGNING_PASSWORD }}

      - name: Publish release
        run: ./gradlew closeAndReleaseRepoistory --no-daemon --no-parallel
        env:
          ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_SONATYPE_NEXUS_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.SONATYPE_NEXUS_USERNAME }}
          ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_SONATYPE_NEXUS_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.SONATYPE_NEXUS_PASSWORD }}

Source

They key itself needs to be distributed in order for this to work though. Instructions are here.

[akarnokd]

I don't think we need to generate new keys.

How do we get the existing private key up there? Do we need a gpg file added to the project, then reference it from gradle.properties (consequently the key id & passwords are the secrets in your example)?

[akarnokd]

Ah, there is an in-memory option: link

It needs an armored-ascii key string: link

This is how to export it: link

[akarnokd]

Posted #7181.

@benjchristensen Could you update SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY and SIGNING_PASSWORD in secrets with the current RxJava private key info?

[benjchristensen]

Yes, I'll do that.

[benjchristensen]

Trying to figure out which of the keys it is ... it's been a while :-)

[benjchristensen]

I've got on PGP key with a passphrase, and one without. Not sure which one needs to be used here, so I'll upload the one with a passphrase.

[benjchristensen]

Ok, I guess that can be tried now, and if that doesn't work, I can change it to the other one. Do you need the public key or do you have that already?

[akarnokd]

No need for the public key.