Our Release Managers keep having troubles running Maven's release plugin. It tends to fail for them when downloading dependencies from Maven Central or uploading artifacts to repository.a.o. It runs just fine for me on the US west coast. This got me wondering if we could run our release steps on builds.a.o in hopes that the builds servers have better connections to Maven Central and repository.a.o. I think we need to use a Windows node.
Maven's release plugins commit and push to Git and upload to repository.a.o. I saw that some folks have a node that can commit to the a.o website SVN. Is anyone already doing releases from builds? What issues are there, if any? Thanks, -Alex
