Share your open source project with Sonatype

Two weeks ago the idea struck me, that having a Maven plugin to check DDD layer violations and optionally break the build would prove very useful in our projects. Then thanks to Kaloz the idea has improved to be more ambitious, so I've decided to

1. put a bit more design checks in the plugin
2. go to open source.

After some googling I ended up configuring a Sonatype Open Source Project Repository Hosting. This guide is a very good starting point, I'd only like to fill up some holes I felt missing in the guidance.

1. Before creating a JIRA ticket, you have to own a domain, like tindalos.org, and your groupId will reflect it. Simple way to create a domain is through Go Daddy.  

2. As the Guide points out, you should install GPG on your computer. I went very smooth on Mac (as opposed to Windows 8)

3. Put the following snippets into your settings.xml

   

4. The pom should look like

The groupId should match with the one you have specified when creating the JIRA ticket and somehow resemble to the domain you own.

5. run the following commands in command line

mvn release:clean

mvn release:prepare -Pgpg

mvn release:perform -Pgpg

6. Once you released your artifact with mvn release:perform, log in to Sonatype OSS. Find your staging repository, close it, then release (the first time I think you have to Promote, too and comment on your JIRA ticket). 

That's it. In a short while you should see your artifacts in the Central Repo.