startship

$ brew install saket/repo/startship
$
$ cd ~/path/to/your/library/project
$ startship release && say "released"

startship makes the process of releasing JVM libraries a bit easier by automating usage of Sonatype Nexus so that you don't have to constantly refresh your browser after every operation to check if has gone through yet.

startship will read your library's maven coordinates from gradle.properties, find your staged repository, request it to be closed, wait till it's closed, promote it to release, and finally wait till it's synced to maven central. It also tries to be helpful by making sure you don't release an incorrect artifact by comparing maven coordinates and versions.

Maven coordinates

Maven coordinates for your artifacts are read from your project's gradle.properties.

GROUP=com.example
POM_ARTIFACT_ID=nicolascage
VERSION_NAME=4.2.0

Alternatively, you can provide them using -c.

# Single artifact
$ startship release -c com.example:nicolascage:4.2.0

# Multiple artifacts
$ startship release -c com.example:nicolascage,dianekruger:4.2.0

Sonatype credentials

Sonatype account credentials are read from your machine's ~/gradle/gradle.properties.

mavenCentralUsername=username
mavenCentralPassword=password

You can also provide these using -u and -p options. The values passed can be either Gradle property keys or your actual username or password values.

$ startship release -u yourActualUsername -p YOUR_PASSWORD_GRADLE_PROPERTY

Contributing and running locally

Sonatype's endpoints are badly documented and can be really flaky at times, causing startship to fail. If you run into issues, please consider sending a PR. For your local development, startship can be modified to run in mock mode:

 // AppModule.kt
 val nexus = RealNexus(
-  api = nexusModule.nexusApi,
+  api = MockNexusApi(pom = ...),
   debugMode = debugMode,
-  config = NexusConfig.DEFAULT,
+  config = MOCK_NEXUS_CONFIG,
   scheduler = Schedulers.single()
 )

Next, run startship using:

./run release -c com.example:nicolascage:4.2.0

Releasing

1. Draft a changelog.
2. Run ./gradlew clean distZip and attach build/distributions/startship.zip to a new GitHub release.
3. Update the homebrew formula with a link to the uploaded startship.zip archive. A sha256 checksum of the archive can be created by running sha256sum on the command line.

License

Copyright 2020 Saket Narayan.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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