Release checklist

1. Review: http://www.apache.org/dev/publishing-maven-artifacts.html
   • Make sure your pom is in a SNAPSHOT version
2. Test that your environment and settings: mvn clean install -Papache-release
3. Do a dry run: mvn release:prepare -DdryRun=true
   • You may need to specify a different tag directory
4. Inspect pom.xml.tag. This is the release pom.
   • If you need to start over, run: mvn release:clean clean
5. Publish the snapshot: mvn deploy
6. Clean the release: mvn release:clean clean
7. Prepare the release: mvn release:prepare
   • Note that this step commits the tag and updates pom versions
8. Stage the release: mvn release:perform
9. Login to: https://repository.apache.org/ (Sonatype), find the release and close it
   • If there are errors closing the release, you are not configured correctly, restart

10. Start a \[VOTE\] thread, include links to the release artifacts, the tag, JIRA issues, and README.

    • If the vote fails, drop the release in Sonatype and start over

    • If the vote passes, update the thread with a \[RESULT\] reply

11. Release the repo in Sonatype
12. svn checkout https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/devicemap and checkin the release artifact
    • Remove the previous release if it exists
13. Update the website with the new maven and dist urls