builds failing: "Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.sonatype.plugins:nexus-staging-maven-plugin:jar:1.6.7"

[jameslamb]

Description

The last successful nightly test run was April 30 (12 days ago as of this writing).

Recent runs are failing like this:

Panama FFM API bindings generation done
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
Downloading from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/sonatype/plugins/nexus-staging-maven-plugin/1.6.7/nexus-staging-maven-plugin-1.6.7.pom
Error: ] Some problems were encountered while processing the POMs:
Error:  Unresolveable build extension: Plugin org.sonatype.plugins:nexus-staging-maven-plugin:1.6.7 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved:
	Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.sonatype.plugins:nexus-staging-maven-plugin:jar:1.6.7
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Error:  The build could not read 1 project -> [Help 1]
Error:    
Error:    The project com.nvidia.cuvs:cuvs-java:26.06.0 (/__w/cuvs-lucene/cuvs-lucene/cuvs-workdir/java/cuvs-java/pom.xml) has 1 error
Error:      Unresolveable build extension: Plugin org.sonatype.plugins:nexus-staging-maven-plugin:1.6.7 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved:
Error:      	Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.sonatype.plugins:nexus-staging-maven-plugin:jar:1.6.7
Error:      -> [Help 2]
Error:  
Error:  To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
Error:  Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
Error:  
Error:  For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
Error:  [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/ProjectBuildingException
Error:  [Help 2] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/PluginManagerException
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

(build link)

But it also looks like tests are not being triggered daily... look at the gaps between these dates:

That should be fixed.

Benefits of this work

• unblocks PR CI (currently failing on check-nightly-ci check)

Acceptance Criteria

• test workflow is triggered nightly
• test workflow is passing

Approach

N/A

Notes

N/A

[jameslamb]

I think the builds have not been getting triggered because cuVS's nightly build has been failing a lot the last 2 weeks: https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/actions/workflows/build.yaml?query=event%3Aworkflow_dispatch

cuvs-lucene nightly tests depend on that

  cuvs-lucene-tests:
    needs: [get-run-info, cuvs-build]
    if: ${{ needs.cuvs-build.result == 'success' && !cancelled() && inputs.run_tests }}

https://github.com/rapidsai/workflows/blob/3843cf0cc8317e23d21a3e00f73b586e121f2ab2/.github/workflows/nightly-pipeline.yaml#L278

[jameslamb]

This is still broken, just saw it on #164

https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs-lucene/actions/runs/27294204689/job/80622795661?pr=164#step:13:4866

[jameslamb]

It looks like this error may have been hiding a problem like "we're getting rate-limited by Maven Central".

Trying some workarounds in NVIDIA/cuvs#2253, if they work I'll look into applying similar changes here.