Any idea why I'm getting this error when trying to resolve the rocker plugin?

Could not resolve all files for configuration ':classpath'.
   > Could not resolve com.fizzed:rocker-gradle-plugin:1.4.0.
     Required by:
         project : > com.fizzed.rocker:com.fizzed.rocker.gradle.plugin:1.4.0
      > Could not resolve com.fizzed:rocker-gradle-plugin:1.4.0.
         > Could not get resource '<https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/com/fizzed/rocker-gradle-plugin/1.4.0/rocker-gradle-plugin-1.4.0.module>'.
            > Could not GET '<https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/fizzed/rocker-gradle-plugin/1.4.0/rocker-gradle-plugin-1.4.0.module>'. Received status code 403 from server: Forbidden

This is https://plugins.gradle.org/plugin/com.fizzed.rocker. In particular I'm surprised it redirects to bintray, for a plugin released in october 2023, where bintray was long dead...

doesn't the plugin portal redirect to jcenter for anything it doesn't have itself? e.g.

curl -i <https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/com/example/nonexistent-gradle-plugin/0.0.1/nonexistent-gradle-plugin-0.0.1.pom>

redirects there too

I understood it was redirecting to central now, yet, it seems strange that a plugin published in october 2023 would be broken wrt resolution on the portal

I didn't look at the pom itself but you're right, it does have the magic marker…

anyway, wanted to try rocker but if the plugin is broken then goodbye rocker

Sure it is optional, even with the marker unless something changed. And it would work properly if JCenter properly returned 404.

I suppose in theory

pluginManagement {
  repositories {
    gradlePluginPortal {
      metadataSources {
        ignoreGradleMetadataRedirection()

could help too but I'm not sure if there's a way to do that for just one artifact or not

That's could easily lead to problems with plugins actually using variants though.

yeah that's why I wouldn't want to do it globally for `gradlePluginPortal()`… I don't see a way around that though

Maybe if you declare a second repository with the same URL with the GMM disabled and that artifact as exclusive content