Adding a pom to help publish to maven central

[stephenc]

If you don't want to publish to maven central yourself, I can publish it from my groupId and my github... but it would be better if your code was pushed from your repo as the canonical source

Also did some rework of the tests to make them more portable.

[jbellis]

what are the steps to publish? what does "near ready" in commit message imply is required to make it "all the way ready?"

[stephenc]

the steps to publish are:

1. mvn release:prepare release:perform -B
2. login to oss.sonatype.org and close the staging repo
3. release the staging repo
4. wait for the sync (1h)

"near ready" means you have to get set up as a publisher to oss.sonatype.org...

1. need to create an account on their jira,
2. need to submit a ticket
3. need to ensure your GPG key is known in the key store they follow
4. need to wait for Juven Xu to add you to the list of publishers
5. need to do a publish
6. need to ping Juven so he can validate your poms as good and set up the permanent sync

[stephenc]

There might be one or two gotcha's along the way that may need minor tweaks to the pom... I think the tag is required by oss.sonatype.org

[jbellis]

committed w/ a little rebasing.

I'll leave publishing to you.