extended the script to support building release from git tags

package.sh

@@ -3,20 +3,30 @@
 # Get the original sources from Douglas Crockfords GitHub repo
 git clone https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-java.git original
 
+echo ""
+echo "The following tags exist in the repository:"
+cd original
+git tag -l 
+
+echo "Please enter the tag name to be released"
+read tagName
+
+git checkout tags/${tagName}
+cd ..
+
 # repackage them into maven standard layout
 mkdir -p dist/src/main/java/org/json
-rm original/README
 mv original/* dist/src/main/java/org/json/
+rm dist/src/main/java/org/json/README
+rm -Rf original
 
 # Add a pom.xml with the current date as version
 cp pom.xml dist/
-sed -i "s/%%VERSION%%/`date +%Y%m%d`/g" dist/pom.xml
+sed -i "s/%%VERSION%%/${tagName}/g" dist/pom.xml
 
-# Build and release it
-cd dist
-mvn deploy -Psonatype-oss-release
-cd ..
+ech ""
+echo "Please run mvn deploy in the dist folder"
+echo "use a shell with a working gpg2 command. Hit <enter> afterwards."
+read succes
 
-# and clean everything up again
-rm -Rf original
 rm -Rf dist

pom.xml

@@ -121,7 +121,31 @@
 					</execution>
 				</executions>
 			</plugin>
+			<plugin>
+				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+				<artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
+				<version>1.5</version>
+				<executions>
+					<execution>
+						<id>sign-artifacts</id>
+						<phase>verify</phase>
+						<goals>
+							<goal>sign</goal>
+						</goals>
+					</execution>
+				</executions>
+			</plugin>
+			<plugin>
+				<groupId>org.sonatype.plugins</groupId>
+				<artifactId>nexus-staging-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+				<version>1.6.3</version>
+				<extensions>true</extensions>
+				<configuration>
+					<serverId>ossrh</serverId>
+					<nexusUrl>https://oss.sonatype.org/</nexusUrl>
+					<autoReleaseAfterClose>true</autoReleaseAfterClose>
+				</configuration>
+			</plugin>
 		</plugins>
 	</build>
-
 </project>