How can I deploy artifacts from a Maven build to the SourceForge File Release System?

Question

I am using SourceForge for some Open Source projects and I want to automate the deployment of releases to the SourceForge File Release System. I use Maven for my builds and

Answer 1

After trying this a number of times, I finally got it to work -- with sftp not scp. This should work from a unix box (or Mac) -- I'm not sure about sftp clients for Windoze. I am using mvn version 2.2.0 and I don't think I have any special plugins installed. This deploys the various mvn packages to the Files section of my project page.

You'll need to change the following in your settings to get it to work:

• user -- replace with your sourceforce username
• secret -- replace with your password
• ormlite -- replace with your project name
• /o/or/ -- replace with the first char and first 2 chars of your project name

In my $HOME/.m2/settings.xml file I have the following for the SF server:

  sourceforge
  secret
  775
  775

I don't specify the username in the settings.xml file because it needs to be username,project and I want to deploy multiple packages to SF. Then, in my pom.xml file for the ormlite package I have the following:

 
  sourceforge
  SourceForge
  sftp://user,ormlite@frs.sourceforge.net:/home/frs/project/o/or/ormlite/releases
  
 
 
  sourceforge
  SourceForge
  sftp://user,ormlite@frs.sourceforge.net:/home/frs/project/o/or/ormlite/snapshots
  
 

Obviously the /releases and /snapshots directory suffixes can be changed depending on your file hierarchy.