Currently the person who executes the release process builds the release artifacts on his own system. I wondered why we don't make the Maven release from Jenkins. Jenkins has a plugin to perform Maven releases [1]. We no longer depend on the environment settings of individual committers and our "local" repository does not contain home brew artifacts from other projects. Besides why would you do something manually if the machine can do it for you ;)
[1] https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/M2+Release+Plugin Jasha
