[DO NOT MERGE] manual release to maven central #7704
                
     Draft
            
            
          
  Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
  This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
  Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
  Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
  Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
  Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
  Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
  You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
  Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
  This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
  Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
  Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
  Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
  Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
  
    
  
    
This is a template PR of how you can replay a release build to bypass the checks of tests, tags etc and only publish the artifacts into maven central.
This originally was motivated by a successful release job but an incomplete upload of artefacts into the staging repository in SOnatype/Maven. The idea is to disable part of some of the checks and steps in the publish script as well as some unnecessary Jenkins stages (slack notification, tests etc).