Yesterday JFrog announced their intention to shutdown BinTray and JCenter. Whilst the shutdown is on May 1st, no submissions can occur after the end of February. More at https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/

In Egeria we currently use Azure pipelines for our release process. We build artifacts that are pushed to artifactory, from there to BinTray, on to JCenter & then synced to maven central. This process will therefore break at the end of next month.

I’ve raised an egeria issue to track: https://github.com/odpi/egeria/issues/4664

Also I’ve asked for assistance from the LF team via: https://jira.linuxfoundation.org/plugins/servlet/theme/portal/2/IT-21485 (this link is limited to support team)

You can see many other github projects at least impacted in some way by this at: https://github.com/search?p=2&q=jcenter&type=Issues

Our main PR/merge builds pipelines were originally on Azure, but after an extended outage we moved to GitHub actions. This proved relatively easy - decent docs, lots of samples, a thriving community. We now have a better, quicker, simpler & more maintainable process, but haven't yet addressed release.

As part of this challenge my hunch is that moving the same way will be a benefit. I presume many teams will be impacted with this change so hope we can pool ideas and get help from the LF….