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+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.
+
+  <profiles>
+    <profile>
+      <id>release</id>
+      <properties>
+        <gpg.passphrase>********</gpg.passphrase>
+      </properties>
+    </profile>
+  </profiles>
+
+  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.
+
+   Change the download box in the archiva-site/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
+   To point to the new binaries and source files.
+
+9) Deploy the site.
+
+   $ mvn clean site:deploy
+