FYI, I have started working on a wiki page for uploading to Maven Central.
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/HowToPublishToMavenCentral There is an open issue: namely where are the public GPG keys of Cassandra Developers kept so that 3rd parties can verify that the release they download from central is an official release. I am going to work on a tidy-up of my "works on my machine" patch to release to central, and I hope to have that in a form that can be committed to trunk and 0.7 in the next couple of days. Once that patch gets applied I will be able to finish the wiki page, at which point I suggest that we link to it from one of the developer pages. It might be no harm to re-name the page HowToRelease and add content about running a release build and the voting process... but I'm only suggesting like ;-) Anywho, this was just an update to let people know that I'm on the case! -Stephen