@marko-bekhta pointed out in #103 , using the central-publishing-maven-plugin waitUntil property of 'published' can cause a significant delay during the build as the plugin is waiting on upload, validation and completion of publication of the artifacts. The 'validated' value is probably a better tradeoff. For reference, here are the current waitUntil property options:

• published: Wait until the deployment is uploaded, validated and published. Failures from upload, validation or publishing will be in the console result output.
• uploaded: Wait until the deployment bundle has been uploaded to the central URL. Only upload failures will be reported, any validation failures will have to be checked separately (i.e. on https://central.sonatype.com).
• validated: Wait until the deployment bundle has been uploaded and validated. Failures from upload and validation will be in the console result output.