I'm trying to add lib from bintray to jcenter, but...

# opensource

[Michal Klimczak]

I'm trying to add lib from bintray to jcenter, but keep getting an error message

Failed to send a message: Path is already exist in JCenter.
POM project file is not valid.

It's a Kotlin multiplatform project and it resolves just fine from a dl.bintray url, but somehow doesn;t work for jcenter.
If I uncheck "Is POM project" I only get "Path is already exist...". Any ideas what might be wrong with my repo? It's here: https://bintray.com/futuremind/koru

[mbonnin]

This might be because jcenter mirrored your project. Was it on mavenCentral before?

[mbonnin]

Or rather it might be conflicting with https://bintray.com/mklimczak/maven/recycler-fast-scroll since they're using the same prefix "com.futuremind.*"

[mbonnin]

I'm never 100% sure what the rules are. Maybe try to publish with com.futuremind.koru ?

[Michal Klimczak]

it's not been on maven central. it must be the second reason. I did publish it on my account and now I'm publishing under futuremind...

[Michal Klimczak]

by com.futuremind.koru you mean the directory structure?

[mbonnin]

For groupId

[Michal Klimczak]

okay, I get it. need to think where they should all go and possibly move things around... thank you very much!

[mbonnin]

Maybe bintray "blocks" all prefixes as soon as someone "allocates" a groupId. E.g. if someone takes com.mycompany.awesomelib , that would prevent anyone else to publish to com.mycompany . That would somehow make sense.

[mbonnin]

Maybe publishing to com.mycompany.someotherlib with user2 would work or maybe the original com.mycompany prefix and everything under is now reserved for user1

[mbonnin]

In which case, you'll have to somehow transfer ownership of com.futuremind to user2 (or add user2 to the user1 organization maybe?)

[mbonnin]

This might be useful: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57630385/how-change-bintray-package-ownership

[mbonnin]

Ultimately, you might have to contact their support, they're usually quite responsive for these kind of things

[mbonnin]

(PS: mavenCentral is another option that has faster upload speeds and better guarantees for users as it doesn't allow changing published libs)

[Michal Klimczak]

I will start with contacting the support and see where it gets me 🙂