JCenter and Bintray will shut down on May 1st. See...

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[Alexander Weickmann]

JCenter and Bintray will shut down on May 1st. Seems like there are multiple Kotlin projects on these repos, e.g.
https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-wrappers

Did Jetbrains already anounce a plan that these repos will be published somewhere else in time?

[Robert Jaros]

Bintray will shut down but JCenter will stay online for a year.

[Alexander Weickmann]

okay. do you know by chance whether Jetbrains consistently publishes all of their libsto JCenter?

[turansky]

cc @Sebastian Aigner

[Sebastian Aigner]

We’re working on making sure that all new releases of Kotlin libraries will be published to Maven Central. We’re also currently working on moving the current versions to Central as well. 🙂

[Sebastian Aigner]

But, as Robert has said, JCenter won’t vanish on May 1st.

[Alexander Weickmann]

This is good to hear. So I assume you are fighting through the Sonatype process right now 😄
But all these troubles aside, once a lib is in Maven central it's really easy to consume since you don't need to find the proper repos.
An official announcement would be great. I guess we are not the only ones using Bintray URLs in our Gradle builds. If we don't plan in time to move them over in time, our builds will start to fail. Question is whether we should transfer now to Jcenter or wait for these Maven central libs

[Alexander Weickmann]

BTW: Really cool to get an answer from Jetbrains directly here in Slack so quickly. Very impressed