[damon140]

Configures a Maven Central publishing plugin.

Adds two authors.

Not using the Gradle maven-publish plugin as it does not support publishing to Maven Central completely in 2026, although it did used to.

Uses plugin com.vanniktech.maven.publish instead. Note this plugin mandates the use of "short" PGP key ids, and not the preferred more modern "long" format. This appears to require the generation step for secring.gpg to be done with the matching key id length.

Some command line notes about secring.gpg creation:

# list secret keys used for signing so we can get the key ids
gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format=long

# Find long fingerprint in output of above, from the `sec` key, then take the rightmost 8 characters as the "short" key id to use below

gpg --export-secret-keys -o secring.gpg <key-id-goes-here>

[dustmachine]

okay, this looks like it works