RELEASE

h1. Prerequisites

The release works either with the latest maven2 release (2.2.1) or the latest maven3 release (3.0.3). Lower version numbers can (and will) cause troubles!

h1. Release paxexam1

If you have all required rights to release pax-exam1 follow these steps:

1) add this into your ~/.m2/settings.xml

{code}
<profile>
  <id>release</id>
  <properties>
    <gpg.passphrase>gpgpassphrase</gpg.passphrase>
    <release-paxexam1-altGitURL>scm:git:file:///path/to/local/repo/org.ops4j.pax.exam1</release-paxexam1-altGitURL>
  </properties>
</profile>
{code}

2) prepare the release:

{code}
mvn -Prelease,repos.sonatype.staging -Darguments="-Prelease,repos.sonatype.staging" release:prepare -DautoVersionSubmodules=true
{code}

3) perform the release (this fails):

{code}
mvn -Prelease,repos.sonatype.staging -Darguments="-Prelease,repos.sonatype.staging" release:perform
.... auth failure in site:deploy ...
{code}

4) go into the checkout directory:

{code}
cd target/checkout
{code}

5) push to oss.sonatype.org:

{code}
mvn -Prelease,repos.sonatype.staging  source:jar javadoc:jar deploy
{code}

6) push to github:

{code}
git push
{code}

8) go to oss.sonatype.org and push pax-exam1 to central