If we want to eventually drop Apache Ivy dependency, we'd need to implement our own JVM publishing without using Ivy.
For testing purpose it would be great if we can support:

• publishM2 (local Maven repo)
• publishLocal (local Ivy repo) - [2.x] Ivyless publishLocal #8631
• publish with publishMavenStyle (Sonatype etc)
• publish without publishMavenStyle (private Artifactory repos?) - [2.x] Ivyless Ivy repo publish #8639
• publishSigned (Maven Central with signing)

Likely this is a feature that is duplicated cross bunch of build tools.