This is a Maven Parent POM file which manages versions for plugins and some common dependencies such as JUnit to remove complexity from ALA Maven projects.
Deployment of ala-parent-pom is to Sonatype OSSRH for staging, and then release once confirmed.
Deployment is performed using the following command:
mvn clean deploy -Psonatype-oss-release
Use the following as the parent for a pom file to use this parent pom:
<parent>
<groupId>au.org.ala</groupId>
<artifactId>ala-parent-pom</artifactId>
<version>10</version>
</parent>