Maven - Deploy Maven Current References

Introduction

This document gives step-by-step instructions for deploying the Maven current references. The primary audience is Maven PMC.

Be sure that:

you have all Maven servers defined in your settings.xml. For more information, please refer to Committer settings.
you have created your GPG keys. For more information, please refer to Making GPG Keys.

Do a fresh check out of a release tag of Maven, for example:

$ svn checkout https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/maven-2/tags/maven-2.2.0 maven-2.2.0

Execute the site goal for the maven-2.2.0 project
```
maven-2.2.0$ mvn site -Preporting
```
Verify the documentation before deploying
You could also use the stage goal of the Maven Site Plugin to verify the site output. For instance:
```
maven-2.2.0$ mvn site:stage -Preporting -DstagingDirectory=/tmp/maven-2.2.0
```
Deploy to people.apache.org
```
maven-2.2.0$ mvn site-deploy -Preporting
```
It will create a new folder 2.2.0 in /www/maven.apache.org/ref/ on the Apache server.
Note: It will take an hour or so to sync.

The redirection from /ref/current to actual Maven version reference is done through .htaccess published in site.