Add Kafka Connect artifact publish to release process #15212
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Background
There is currently no prebuilt Iceberg connector for Kafka Connect provided with Iceberg. This can make it more difficult than necessary for users who just want to build pipelines, not run gradle :)
Confluent Marketplace (previously "Confluent Hub") is a long-established platform for the distribution of connectors for Kafka Connect, both open-source and proprietary.
At the moment the 1.9.2 version of the connector has been uploaded to the site by Confluent staff as an ad-hoc process.
There are several existing issues from the community regarding: #10745 #14986 #12516
This PR
(replaces #15113)
This PR does two things: