fix: publish empty javadoc jars instead of full Dokka HTML - #751
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The vanniktech publish plugin was attaching the full Dokka HTML render as the javadoc jar on every published artifact (root + all per-target artifacts). API docs are already hosted on the docs site via dokkaGeneratePublicationHtml, so this was pure duplication — javadoc jars made up ~60% of each release's upload weight against Maven Central's usage limits. Configure each publishing module to emit an empty javadoc jar stub (satisfies Central's validation requirement without the payload). Verified locally: mockzilla-common-jvm javadoc jar dropped from 1.28MB to 261 bytes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The vanniktech publish plugin was attaching the full Dokka HTML render as the javadoc jar on every published artifact (root + all per-target artifacts). API docs are already hosted on the docs site via dokkaGeneratePublicationHtml, so this was pure duplication — javadoc jars made up ~60% of each release's upload weight against Maven Central's usage limits.
Configure each publishing module to emit an empty javadoc jar stub (satisfies Central's validation requirement without the payload). Verified locally: mockzilla-common-jvm javadoc jar dropped from 1.28MB to 261 bytes.
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./gradlew spotlessApplyrun (for Kotlin changes) / formatting run (for Dart/Swift changes)