Nigel Jones

@davidradl I think we have enough for you to add the first code drop (or more). Once there's some code in, I'll look at the buid side - at least...

Ok. Once you have something that could potentially build, and it's cheked in, I'll look at the workflows, gradle wrapper, - or you can give them a go if you...

Quick update - I've ticked off the completed tasks. Builds are running for pr/merge with checks, though I need to fix an issue with publishing the artifacts to maven central....

Since we now have the new repo - let's move this issue over there to track the initial setup tasks..

Artifacts now being built, signed, & distributed to maven central - or rather the snapshot repo There's been a fair amount of gradle refactoring, dependencies, additions around source/javadoc/signing/publishing (including more...

If using maven/gradle you can retrieve this artifact as long as the snapshot repo in in your repo list. Via http you can retrieve via wget ``` wget https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/artifact/maven/redirect\?r\=snapshots\&g\=org.odpi.egeria\&a\=egeria-connector-integration-topic-strimzi\&v\=1.0-SNAPSHOT\&c\=jar-with-dependencies -O...

@davidradl there are still a few actions - see tasklist above

Additional task - [ ] Add to connector catalog

still some outstanding tasks on docs + linux foundation

Move to docs to ensure all documented there