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JetBrains plugin publish pipeline failed silently for three weeks

A developer experienced a three-week outage where their JetBrains plugin was not installable from the marketplace, despite their automated publish pipeline reporting success daily. The issue stemmed from the pipeline only checking for a zero exit code, which did not differentiate between a successful upload and a plugin stuck in moderation or a permanent block. The author recommends implementing a check that directly queries the public marketplace listing after publishing, comparing the visible version to the manifest, and failing the build if the listing is not updated or accessible. AI

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JetBrains plugin publish pipeline failed silently for three weeks

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Heinrich Neb ·

    Your publish pipeline is green. Nobody can install your plugin.

    <p><em>Silent failure</em></p> <p>For three weeks nobody could install your plugin. The publish job was green every single day. You find out when a user asks why the version is so old.</p> <h2> Three weeks green, zero installs </h2> <p>This happened to us. The publish job for our…