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anyone got a small scale project featuring maven-publish that i can look at as an example on how to publish to MavenCentral ? the documentation is overwhelming me

Publishing itself is very simple with new maven-publish, just specify repository and create MavenPublish component:
<https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/publishing_setup.html#sec:basic_publishing|https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/publishing_setup.html#sec:basic_publishing>

For maven central you should also specify username and password for repository

Also for maven central you should publish javadoc, you can enable it with new gradle API for that:
java {
    withJavadocJar()
    withSourcesJar()
}