preparing for cord onos app publishing.
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+ ~ Copyright 2014-present Open Networking Laboratory
+ ~
+ ~ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ ~ you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ ~ You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ ~
+ ~ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ ~
+ ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ ~ limitations under the License.
+ -->
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+ xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+ xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+ <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+ <prerequisites>
+ <maven>3.0.0</maven>
+ </prerequisites>
+
+ <groupId>org.opencord</groupId>
+ <artifactId>cord-base</artifactId>
+ <packaging>pom</packaging>
+ <version>1</version>
+
+ <name>${project.artifactId}</name>
+ <description>Open CORD Base Pom</description>
+
+ <url>http://opencord.org/</url>
+
+ <licenses>
+ <license>
+ <name>Apache License, Version 2.0</name>
+ <url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>
+ </license>
+ </licenses>
+
+ <developers>
+ <developer>
+ <organization>Open Networking Lab</organization>
+ <url>http://onlab.us</url>
+ </developer>
+ </developers>
+
+ <properties>
+ <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+ </properties>
+
+ <distributionManagement>
+ <snapshotRepository>
+ <id>ossrh</id>
+ <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
+ </snapshotRepository>
+ </distributionManagement>
+
+ <profiles>
+ <profile>
+ <id>release</id>
+ <build>
+ <plugins>
+ <plugin>
+ <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+ <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
+ <version>2.2.1</version>
+ <executions>
+ <execution>
+ <id>attach-sources</id>
+ <goals>
+ <goal>jar-no-fork</goal>
+ </goals>
+ </execution>
+ </executions>
+ </plugin>
+ <plugin>
+ <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+ <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
+ <executions>
+ <execution>
+ <id>attach-javadocs</id>
+ <goals>
+ <goal>jar</goal>
+ </goals>
+ </execution>
+ </executions>
+ </plugin>
+ <plugin>
+ <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+ <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
+ <version>1.5</version>
+ <executions>
+ <execution>
+ <id>sign-artifacts</id>
+ <phase>verify</phase>
+ <goals>
+ <goal>sign</goal>
+ </goals>
+ </execution>
+ </executions>
+ </plugin>
+ <plugin>
+ <groupId>org.sonatype.plugins</groupId>
+ <artifactId>nexus-staging-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+ <version>1.6.5</version>
+ <extensions>true</extensions>
+ <configuration>
+ <serverId>ossrh</serverId>
+ <nexusUrl>https://oss.sonatype.org/</nexusUrl>
+ <autoReleaseAfterClose>false</autoReleaseAfterClose>
+ </configuration>
+ </plugin>
+ </plugins>
+ </build>
+ </profile>
+ </profiles>
+</project>