Maven Publishing

Gradle build file:

• Service util:  https://github.com/OpenLMIS/openlmis-service-util/blob/master/build.gradle
• Blog:  http://yennicktrevels.com/blog/2013/10/11/automated-gradle-project-deployment-to-sonatype-oss-repository/

Signing

• Identity OpenLMIS, secring.gpg file, username and password in S3
• Using GnuPG:  http://central.sonatype.org/pages/working-with-pgp-signatures.html#distributing-your-public-key
• Creating a secring.gpg file (legacy as of GPG2 needed for Gradle Signing plugin):  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32816003/how-to-sign-with-gradle-and-gpg2
• Key ids and format:  http://superuser.com/questions/619145/how-to-make-gnupg-display-full-8-byte-64-bit-key-id

Central Requirements

• central.sonatype.org/pages/requirements.html

Releasing

Moving a repository from SNAPSHOTs to Releases repositories requires 2 things:

• Changing the version to not have "-SNAPSHOTS" appended.
• Logging into the Nexus manager, closing the staging repository, and then releasing it.

Steps have been added to Rolling a Release