RELEASE

The release making process is a two-stage process:

Prerequisites

You need a Sonatype account, which you can create here:

https://issues.sonatype.org/
The Sonatype user needs to be added to the MEKA project, just open the following ticket again and specify the user that needs adding:

https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/OSSRH-9969
Artifacts get signed using GPG, so you need to have a GPG key and deploy it
- Create a GPG key
  
  http://blog.sonatype.com/2010/01/how-to-generate-pgp-signatures-with-maven/
- Set up Maven (pom.xml and your Maven profile)
  
  http://central.sonatype.org/pages/apache-maven.html#gpg-signed-components

Ensure all changes have been committed and all tests succeed
run the following command (and accept or change the version numbers):
```
mvn release:prepare release:perform
```
log into sonatype

https://oss.sonatype.org/
select the Staging repositories
scroll down and check the netsfmeka repository
check deployed artifacts on the Content tab (bottom of the screen) using the Archive Browser once a jar has been selected
Close the repository (top of the screen) with a message like new release X.Y.Z
artifacts will get prepared for being release, which will take some time, keep clicking on Refresh till the Release action is available and Close is disabled
Release the repository with a message like new release X.Y.Z
The artifacts will get transferred to Maven Central in the background, should happen within 15min. You can check the following URL whether they have been pushed out:

http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/net/sf/meka/meka/
The artifacts might not be searchable through http://search.maven.org/ for a few hours, as the search index only gets updated every 3 hours or so
log out of sonatype

In case artifacts shouldn''t get deployed for some reason (give it a few hours), go to the following URL and open a ticket:

https://issues.sonatype.org/

once the artifacts have been deployed successfully and are available from Maven Central, you can create a release archive
update the version in the release.xml file to match the version of the just released Meka artifacts (also remove the -SNAPSHOT suffix) and commit changes
run the following command to create the release archive in the target directory:
```
mvn -f release.xml clean install
```
update the version in the release.xml to the new -SNAPSHOT version of the pom.xml file and commit changes
upload the release archive to sf.net