Java release likely to be rate limited by Sonatype

[wjones127]

Sonatype is starting to implement limits on publishing, described here https://central.sonatype.org/publish/maven-central-publishing-limits/

The deadline for this is August 11, 2026.

We can contact them for an increase in quota, but they might not like us publishing frequent betas there. What we did with Python is publish the betas to an alternate registry, and only publish stable releases to the main one. I'm not sure if we can self-host a Maven registry or not.

[wjones127]

FYI our main jar is about 200MB total. So if we request an increase just for stable releases, let's ask for 1.5 GB / month. That is plenty of room for 2 major releases plus any hot fixes. Also would be good to ask for 10 releases or more per month, to handle all different packages.