Releasing Master POM

[Greg Reddin-4]

I'm preparing to call a vote to release the master POM. I started
manually doing things because there was a thread some time ago saying
the maven release plugin wasn't usable for this. I'm thinking maybe
that has changed. Should I back out my changes and use mvn release to
do the job or am I on the right track? If I'm on the right track is
there a list of tasks that need to happen to do it manually?

Since I'm backing up please check and see if there are further changes
needed before releasing the POM.

Thanks,
Greg