h1. Release paxwicket

If you have all required rights to release pax-wicket follow these steps:

1) add this into your ~/.m2/settings.xml

{code}
<profile>
  <id>release</id>
  <properties>
    <gpg.passphrase>MY_GPG_PASSPHRASE</gpg.passphrase>
    <release-paxswissbox-altGitURL>scm:git:file:///path/to/local/repo/org.ops4j.pax.swissbox</release-paxswissbox-altGitURL>
  </properties>
</profile>
{code}

2) prepare the release:

{code}
mvn -Prelease,repos.sonatype.staging -Darguments="-Prelease,repos.sonatype.staging" release:prepare -DautoVersionSubmodules=true
{code}

3) perform the release (this fails):

{code}
mvn -Prelease,repos.sonatype.staging -Darguments="-Prelease,repos.sonatype.staging" release:perform
.... auth failure in site:deploy ...
{code}

4) go into the checkout directory:

{code}
cd target/checkout
{code}

5) push to oss.sonatype.org:

{code}
mvn -Prelease,repos.sonatype.staging  source:jar javadoc:jar deploy
{code}

6) push to github:

{code}
git push
{code}

8) go to oss.sonatype.org and push pax-swissbox to central