Gradle plugin marker artifacts are not published since 1.0.0

[kirich1409]

Problem

The Gradle plugin marker artifacts for both plugin ids are missing from Maven Central (and Gradle Plugin Portal) for releases 1.0.0, 1.1.0, and 1.1.1. The only version with published markers is 1.0.0-Beta1:

• dev.androidbroadcast.featured:dev.androidbroadcast.featured.gradle.plugin — maven-metadata.xml lists only 1.0.0-Beta1
• dev.androidbroadcast.featured.application:dev.androidbroadcast.featured.application.gradle.plugin — never published at all

The implementation artifact dev.androidbroadcast.featured:featured-gradle-plugin:1.1.1 IS published and contains both plugin descriptors (META-INF/gradle-plugins/dev.androidbroadcast.featured.properties and ...featured.application.properties), so only the marker POMs are missing.

Impact

The documented plugins { id("dev.androidbroadcast.featured") version "1.1.1" } / version-catalog plugin alias usage fails to resolve, because the plugins {} DSL resolves plugins via marker artifacts.

Workaround

// settings.gradle.kts
pluginManagement {
    resolutionStrategy {
        eachPlugin {
            if (requested.id.id.startsWith("dev.androidbroadcast.featured")) {
                useModule("dev.androidbroadcast.featured:featured-gradle-plugin:${requested.version}")
            }
        }
    }
}

Expected

Marker artifacts published for both plugin ids on every release (e.g. via java-gradle-plugin's automated marker publication / gradlePlugin {} block with the maven-publish plugin).