Settings/plugin bootstrap fails to resolve `grails-publish` from ASF snapshots

[matrei]

When updating org.apache.grails.gradle:grails-publish to 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT, the Gradle build fails during initialization with an error like:

Error resolving plugin [id: 'com.gradle.develocity', version: '4.3.2']
> Could not resolve all artifacts for configuration 'classpath'.
   > Could not find org.apache.grails.gradle:grails-publish:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.
     Searched in the following locations:
       - https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/org/apache/grails/gradle/grails-publish/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml
       - https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/org/apache/grails/gradle/grails-publish/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/grails-publish-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.pom
     Required by:
         settings file 'grails-gradle/settings.gradle' > project :build-logic-root:build-logic

The problem is not that the artifact is missing, but that the repository is configured too late in the bootstrap sequence.