How to build a release version of Apache Sling?

[Stefan Scheidewig]

Hello,

I consulted 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
ing.apache.org/documentation/development/getting-and-building-sling.html
and tried to build the commit 05db249c222489cb888a80e4dbcb7f6841d196ee 
(or revision 1571670) of Sling.

However the build fails for module "Sling Servlet Archetype" while 
executing the step
"Building test-servlet-archetype-project 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT" because of the 
missing artifact
"org.apache.maven.surefire:surefire-junit3:jar:9c6abc2".

I already prepared my settings.xml like mentioned in the README.txt but 
nonetheless the build fails
with that error. Is there a possibility to build the newest Apache Sling 
release. I assume the
latest Sling release is tagged with Sling-18 but how can I build this 
one?

Thanks and regards,
Stefan Scheidewig