Release H2GIS into maven central - orbisgis/h2gis GitHub Wiki

Steps to publish a new release on maven central.

Create an account on maven central

Create a GPG signature

http://central.sonatype.org/pages/working-with-pgp-signatures.html

Create a JIRA ticket

Create a ticket with Project of Support - Open Source Project Repository Hosting and Issue Type of New Project in the OSSRH JIRA.

Fill the page with the following information:

groupId: org.orbisgis
Project URL: http://www.orbisgis.org
SCM URL: http://github.com/orbisgis/h2gis
Nexus Username: The JIRA Username you just signed up, one or more
Already Sync To Central: Yes
Description: Please give me write access already existing group org.orbisgis

After the ticket is created, JIRA will prepare Maven repositories for you. JIRA will update the ticket and set it as resolved once it’s done. Normally it takes less than 2 business days.

Publish release version when tag is not created

Switch to Java7 from this point mvn -version should show java7.

Checkout snapshot master branch

git fetch --all -p
git checkout orbisgis/master -b prepare_release
mvn release:clean
mvn release:prepare -P standalone
[INFO] Checking dependencies and plugins for snapshots ...
What is the release version for "H2GIS"? (org.orbisgis:h2gis) 1.2.2: : 
What is the release version for "test-utilities"? (org.orbisgis:test-utilities) 1.2.2: : 
What is the release version for "h2spatial-api"? (org.orbisgis:h2spatial-api) 1.2.2: : 
What is the release version for "spatial-utilities"? (org.orbisgis:spatial-utilities) 1.2.2: : 
What is the release version for "h2spatial"? (org.orbisgis:h2spatial) 1.2.2: : 
What is the release version for "h2drivers"? (org.orbisgis:h2drivers) 1.2.2: : 
What is the release version for "h2network"? (org.orbisgis:h2network) 1.2.2: : 
What is the release version for "h2spatial-ext"? (org.orbisgis:h2spatial-ext) 1.2.2: : 
What is the release version for "h2spatial-osgi"? (org.orbisgis:h2spatial-osgi) 1.2.2: : 
What is the release version for "h2spatial-ext-osgi"? (org.orbisgis:h2spatial-ext-osgi) 1.2.2: : 
What is the release version for "h2-dist"? (org.orbisgis:h2-dist) 1.2.2: : 
What is SCM release tag or label for "H2GIS"? (org.orbisgis:h2gis) h2gis-1.2.2: : v1.2.2

Note that release tag must start with v

Enter your GPG and github credentials when requested.Tag must be available in orbisgis/h2gis repository.

mvn release:perform -P standalone

Stage release

Then go to Staging repositories

Find org.orbisgis Repository.

Check Java version and if there is javadoc and sources. Then click on Close button. When close is done. Click on Release button.

Release on nexus.orbisgis.org

Configure ~/.m2/settings.xml with nexus account

Launch

mvn clean source:jar install deploy -P orbisgis-release