Hi,
so I learned a lot more this time. First of all: If you follow the normal release path of "mvn release:prepare" "mvn release:perform" the tags arent created correctly. You have to set the version to the release version and set the tag property manually, commit and tag that commit manually. After that a "mvn -P apache-release deploy" has to be issued to stage the release candidate. As soon as that was successfully, update the version to the next development version and set the tag back to HEAD. (I just thught I'd post that for documenting it) Also I left the staging repo open the last time. This time I closed it which makes Nexus do all sorts of PGP checks as well as checks if the poms respect the apache release policy and all mandatory fields contain valid values. After the repo is closed you actually get a public url for testing the RC: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheflex-1001? Think with this it's a lot easier to check. Chris