Details
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Improvement
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Status: Resolved
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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Graduating from the Incubator
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None
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None
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