We've been releasing to people.apache.org, and that is/was painful for the maven repository artifacts: we loose metadata with each release. Some of the maven guys work for sonatype and have donated the Nexus enterprise repository to the ASF for our releases. I'd like to propose that we release all future releases through the nexus repository instead of people.apache.org. (I expect this to become policy somewhere in the future).
Here is what the Maven Project is using if you want to understand what you would need to do as a project: http://maven.apache.org/developers/release/releasing.html http://maven.apache.org/developers/committer-settings.html There is also the staging documentation in the Nexus book: http://www.sonatype.com/books/nexus-book/reference/staging.html Also know that using Nexus requires us to take your artifacts off people.apache.org and place them under the management of Nexus. But once this is done, staging and promoting is painless and we will fully manage the repository (including snapshot management) and the sync artifacts to central for you. [ ] yes, use nexus deployment from now [ ] no, ... Martijn
