From c90a1e3723458ea9f58ae4fe946fbac130b6986f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Attila=20M=C3=A9sz=C3=A1ros?= <a_meszaros@apple.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 20:05:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] fix: exclude the Kotlin sample from Maven Central
 publishing

The module has no Java sources, so maven-javadoc-plugin attaches no
javadoc jar to it and Central rejects the whole deployment with
"Javadocs must be provided but not found in entries", which is what
broke the 5.5.1 release. It only exists as a Kotlin interop E2E test,
so keep it out of the published bundle.
---
 sample-operators/kotlin-operator/pom.xml | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/sample-operators/kotlin-operator/pom.xml b/sample-operators/kotlin-operator/pom.xml
index 532aecbf1b..9a23bb9a02 100644
--- a/sample-operators/kotlin-operator/pom.xml
+++ b/sample-operators/kotlin-operator/pom.xml
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 
   <properties>
     <kotlin.version>2.4.10</kotlin.version>
+    <skipPublishing>true</skipPublishing>
   </properties>
 
   <dependencyManagement>

From 98e35e75ed20968ebab14f675a9ebdaf7128d2f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Attila=20M=C3=A9sz=C3=A1ros?= <a_meszaros@apple.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 20:25:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] fix: exclude all samples from Maven Central publishing

Replaces the skipPublishing property on the Kotlin sample with an
excludeArtifacts list on central-publishing-maven-plugin, so the
exclusion lives next to the publishing configuration, and extends it to
every sample module: they are demos and end-to-end tests, not artifacts
to depend on.
---
 pom.xml                                  | 14 ++++++++++++++
 sample-operators/kotlin-operator/pom.xml |  1 -
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f205805471..ecd3a7bbaf 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -642,6 +642,20 @@
               <tokenAuth>true</tokenAuth>
               <autoPublish>true</autoPublish>
               <waitUntil>published</waitUntil>
+              <!-- The samples are demos and end-to-end tests, not artifacts to depend on, so they
+                   are not published. The Kotlin one could not be published anyway: it has no Java
+                   sources, so no javadoc jar is attached to it and Central rejects the whole
+                   deployment with "Javadocs must be provided but not found in entries". -->
+              <excludeArtifacts>
+                <excludeArtifact>sample-operators</excludeArtifact>
+                <excludeArtifact>sample-controller-namespace-deletion</excludeArtifact>
+                <excludeArtifact>sample-kotlin-operator</excludeArtifact>
+                <excludeArtifact>sample-leader-election</excludeArtifact>
+                <excludeArtifact>sample-mysql-schema-operator</excludeArtifact>
+                <excludeArtifact>sample-operations</excludeArtifact>
+                <excludeArtifact>sample-tomcat-operator</excludeArtifact>
+                <excludeArtifact>sample-webpage-operator</excludeArtifact>
+              </excludeArtifacts>
             </configuration>
           </plugin>
         </plugins>
diff --git a/sample-operators/kotlin-operator/pom.xml b/sample-operators/kotlin-operator/pom.xml
index 9a23bb9a02..532aecbf1b 100644
--- a/sample-operators/kotlin-operator/pom.xml
+++ b/sample-operators/kotlin-operator/pom.xml
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
 
   <properties>
     <kotlin.version>2.4.10</kotlin.version>
-    <skipPublishing>true</skipPublishing>
   </properties>
 
   <dependencyManagement>