Archiva release process. 1) Perform a release:prepare at root of subversion tree. 2) Perform a release:peform at the root of subversion tree. Be sure you have the appropriate $HOME/.m2/settings.xml settings. release ******** Be sure you update your gpg passphrase!! 3) Create the vote for release email. 4) Wait 72 hours 5) Tabulate votes If a negative binding vote occurs, the release must be reviewed. If 3 or more positive binding votes occur, then the release is blessed. 6) Perform a stage:copy of the staged repository to the m2-ibiblio-rsync-repository location. This plugin can be found at the subversion url below: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/plugins/trunk/maven-stage-plugin $ mvn stage:copy -Dsource="http://people.apache.org/builds/maven/archiva/1.0-alpha-1/m2-staging-repository/" -Dtarget="scpexe://people.apache.org/www/people.apache.org/repo/m2-ibiblio-rsync-repository" -Dversion=1.0-alpha-1 -DrepositoryId=apache.releases 7) Copy the binaries over to the dist directory. $ ssh people.apache.org cp /www/people.apache.org/builds/maven/archiva/1.0-alpha-1/archiva-*-bin* /www/www.apache.org/dist/maven/binaries/ $ ssh people.apache.org cp /www/people.apache.org/builds/maven/archiva/1.0-alpha-1/archiva-*-src* /www/www.apache.org/dist/maven/source/ 8) Update the archiva-site documents to point to the new downloads. Update the released binaries to the latest in archiva-site/src/site/apt/download.apt To point to the new binaries and source files. Also add the latest release in the Latest News in archiva-site/src/site/xdoc/index.xml 9) Deploy the site. $ mvn clean site:site site:deploy