Hi John and Tamer,
There has been quite a few small issues in plugin publishing that have finally been solved.
These are 2 key fixes:
I also made changes so that plugin publishing doesn't just fail without errors as it did before when metadata is missing. That has been causing some trouble in the past when publishing new plugins.
Actually all new plugin publishing was broken after switching to the new version of
grails.org a week ago. No metadata was found. That was because of HttpURLConnection doesn't redirect from http to https urls and I had made a change to use https to
repo.grails.org . RestBuilder is also backed by HttpURLConnection and that has the same surprising limitation.
The other commit now goes directly to the maven repository instead of relying on redirects.
I'm soon starting work on the plugin portal for Grails 3 plugins. The idea is to keep the current
grails.org/plugins for Grails 2.x plugins and have some kind of UI integration to the backend of Grails 3 plugin portal which is separate and built with Grails 3. Grails 3 plugin portal will use Bintray features for plugin lookup in a similar way as Gradle plugins are located .
Lari