Is there some place to look if i wanted to author and redistribute components? i can imagine a wide range of ways to do this - i'm wondering if there's some officially blessed way

I'm fairly surprised to say it, but I don't think we do -- we have docs and boilerplate around creating and publishing multi-language providers and plugin binaries, but no docs around publishing language-specific packages (like a Pulumi library to npm or the like, assuming that's what you mean)

gotcha no worries then i'll just with how you'd normally distribute a package