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Make sure you're using a recent version of Maven. As of this writing, the latest was 2.2.1, and it worked fine. In particular, avoid version 2.2.0: it has a serious bug that affects deployments: MNG-4235. Maven 2.1.0 also is problematic, as it produces improper GPG signatures.

For more information see the Pre-Requisities section of theSonatype Maven Repository Usage Guide

Making a Snapshot Release (e.g. 'dspace-1.7.0-SNAPSHOT')

One Step

From a clean, up-to-date copy of trunk, run the following command:

• mvn clean javadoc:jar source:jar deploy

You will have to enter in your GPG password (which you established when you created your Code Signing Key).

The snapshot will be immediately available in the public Sonatype repository: http://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/public

Making an Official Release (e.g. 'dspace-1.7.0' or 'dspace-1.7.0-rc1')

Update KEYS

Make sure the KEYS file at the root of the source tree has your up to date public code signing key and signatures listed. If you don't yet have a code signing key, see Creating a Code Signing Key. When you are ready, append your key with the following command:

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