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Publishers take a non-zero amount of time to register themselves with the master. Trying to publish on a publisher that isn't ready yet will simply result in nothing happening, as you have discovered.

This issue seems to come up fairly frequently here, so it might be worth submitting a ticket for a feature request to issue a warning if trying to use a publisher that isn't ready.

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