[DROIDS-88] Setup maven to do release management

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Graduating from the Incubator
• Fix Version/s: 0.1.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Richard Frovarp
• Created: 30/Apr/10 13:46
• Updated: 02/Dec/11 16:53
• Resolved: 02/Dec/11 16:53

Description

Maven needs to be setup to do release management for the project. According to Incubator guidelines, the build system should be able to do everything to prepare a release.

http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#best-practice-reproducability

Furthermore, if jars are to be released, maven needs to be setup to include the proper files and include a proper manifest.

http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#distributing-jars

The Maven project does have a parent pom that can do a lot of this:

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/pom/trunk/asf/pom.xml