As others have said, there’s no way to retract a release when it’s gone to
Maven Central. (Many of us have noticed show-stopping bugs just after the
release.) The only remedy is to make a superseding release.
I don’t support adding a step where an IPMC member presses the release button.
(Also fixed what my mail client thought I wanted to say, to what I said in the
subject ;-) )
And I think the main problem with the leftpad was the general usage of the
Maven equivalent of “LATEST” as a dependency version.
So, anyone with a LATEST dependency that has built today, will have the
