People have been complaining for a decade or more about how difficult it is to get something published to Maven Central (personal ID verification, documentation

People have been complaining for a decade or more about how difficult it is to get something published to Maven Central (personal ID verification, documentation, and keypair crypto) but it has always existed for very good reasons. As stodgy and unsexy as the tooling is, the bits relating to dependency resolution and publishing in Maven are the industry gold standard.