RELEASE.md

Nailgun Maven Central deployment process

• Create Sonatype Jira account

https://central.sonatype.org/pages/ossrh-guide.html

• Install gpg

brew install gpg

• Generate gpg key

gpg --gen-key Follow instructions

• Set key expiration to forever https://www.g-loaded.eu/2010/11/01/change-expiration-date-gpg-key/

• Upload public key gpg --list-keys gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --send-keys <key_id>

• Fix gpg terminal, otherwise Maven plugin errors

GPG_TTY=$(tty) EXPORT GPG_TTY

• Create private Maven settings by adding the following to ~/.m2/settings.xml

sonatype-nexus-staging sonatype_username sonatype_password sonatype-nexus-snapshots sonatype_username sonatype_password release-sign-artifacts true gpg gpg_passphrase true release-sign-artifacts

• Modify all pom.xml files to exclude -SNAPSHOT from version

• Run deploy with Maven

mvn clean deploy -Prelease-sign-artifacts

• Promote release to production

Login to https://oss.sonatype.org, navigate to 'Staging Repository', find the newly created repository and press 'Close', wait for operation to complete, then press 'Release'. It will promote repository from staging to Central.