Description

Sanity in CI currently fails with the following error:

A problem occurred evaluating project ':server'.
> Could not resolve all files for configuration ':server:runtimeClasspath'.
   > Could not find org.pytorch:torchserve-plugins-sdk:0.0.4.
     Searched in the following locations:
       - https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/pytorch/torchserve-plugins-sdk/0.0.4/torchserve-plugins-sdk-0.0.4.pom
       - https://jcenter.bintray.com/org/pytorch/torchserve-plugins-sdk/0.0.4/torchserve-plugins-sdk-0.0.4.pom
     Required by:
         project :server

The torchserve-plugins-sdk artifacts are currently unavailable via JCenter or Maven Central repositories.

The fix (Reference: https://central.sonatype.org/publish/publish-maven):

• Update the distributionManagement definition in torchserve-plugins-sdk pom.xml to point to Sonatype OSSRH repo.
• Update the torchserve-plugins-sdk version used as dependencies since the current version being built is 0.0.5
• Add nexus-staging-maven-plugin to pom.xml
• Configure maven settings on the host used to deploy to nexus OSSRH

<settings>
  <servers>
    <server>
      <id>ossrh</id>
      <username>your-ossrh-user-id</username>
      <password>your-ossrh-pwd</password>
    </server>
  </servers>
  <profiles>
    <profile>
      <id>ossrh_deploy</id>
      <activation>
        <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
      </activation>
      <properties>
        <skip.gpg>false</skip.gpg>
        <gpg.keyname>your-gpg-keyname</gpg.keyname>
        <gpg.passphrase>your-gpg-passphrase</gpg.passphrase>
      </properties>
    </profile>
  </profiles>
</settings>

• Publish artifacts to maven central repository:
  • cd serving-sdk
  • mvn clean deploy
• Release artifacts from OSSRH account

In addition to publishing the torchserve-plugins-sdk artifacts to maven central, this PR also includes:

• Revert prior workaround to build and install torchserve-plugins-sdk locally: Find torchserve-plugins-sdk artifacts locally #2429
• Disable building and installing torchserve-plugins-sdk locally in GPU and CPU CI workflows
• Remove dependence on JCenter to fetch dependency build artifacts

Type of change

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• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)

Tests

• torchserve-plugins-sdk artifacts have been released and are now available on maven central repository: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/pytorch/torchserve-plugins-sdk/0.0.5/
• Successful CI workflow runs shown below