There are other offerings for a package distribution use case - https://cloudsmith.com being the most clear alternative. Support for 23+ package types, comprehensive API and CLI, package signing support, global PoP's etc.
Full Disclosure - I work at Cloudsmith, and I genuinely think it's awesome. If anyone has any questions feel free to reach out to me - dan at cloudsmith dot com
1. What is the workflow for a single tired developer who just wants to publish a few Java packages from Gradle? Is there a howto or tutorial for this?
2. Your "supported formats" list [1] is just icons, which is very cute, but i have absolutely no idea what the icons for Gradle or Maven are, so i was sat there mousing over every one to see what you have. I highly recommend captions on those icons.
2a. The Go link on that page is broken.
2b. The "pop culture banner coming soon" stamps made me laugh, good work.
3. Have you approached Gradle about getting added as a convenient / default repository? Adding cloudsmith() rather than a full repo string would be a tiny but perhaps significant bit smaller speedbump to adoption.
There are how-to's / guides in a few places. For gradle, you have our general documentation like https://help.cloudsmith.io/docs/gradle-repository and then within your repositories you have contextual "set me up" docs, which come ready to cut and paste into your configs. A little hard to explain without showing you, which I'm happy to do at any stage if you want a call to chat.
Our free trials are fully featured, and our free plan includes public repositories of course also.
Just FYI - We've released the world's first private DART repository service.
Free to trial, and Free for Open-Source projects forever!
I would absolutely love any feedback at all (positive or negative!) and I'm happy to answer anyone's questions about this (or any of the other 18 package formats that we support!) Please do give it a try and let us know what we are missing / can improve / are doing well.
Full Disclosure - I work at Cloudsmith, and I genuinely think it's awesome. If anyone has any questions feel free to reach out to me - dan at cloudsmith dot com