Extension indexer fails to index Gradle-built plugins

[daniel-beck]

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Summary

https://github.com/jenkins-infra/backend-extension-indexer/ logs at https://ci.jenkins.io/job/Infra/job/backend-extension-indexer/job/master/ indicate failures to index extensions in Gradle-built plugins. They provide an invalid packaging that probably should be ignored or fixed in some manner. Unknown packaging: jpi and Unknown packaging: hpi are keywords to look for.

As a side effect, plugins whose build switched from Maven to Gradle disappear from https://www.jenkins.io/doc/developer/extensions/ :(

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[dduportal]

@daniel-beck The infra team needs help on this topic, as we have no idea how this project works 😱 (and besides, not sure what to do)

cc @MarkEWaite you have been a recent commiter on this project: could you help?

[daniel-beck]

The infra team needs help on this topic, as we have no idea how this project works

There's no other issue tracker for this component, so I basically had to file here. I don't expect you to fix this 😉

[MarkEWaite]

Would it be reasonable to move this issue to the https://github.com/jenkins-infra/backend-extension-indexer/ ?.

I'm willing to help, though other priorities will keep me away from this issue until at least November, 2022. I have a draft pull request to that repository #39 to update the tool, but it is draft because my initial smoke testing showed that my modernization attempt may have caused significant damage to the tool.

[dduportal]

Thanks @timja for enabling issue tracking and migrating the issue!