added release steps in the readme

README.md

@@ -163,4 +163,17 @@ To test new unreleased (unsupported) features, you can use the following snippet
 - Alfresco Enterprise Docker images are hosted at [Quay.io](https://quay.io/). Its configuration process is described in detail in [How to configure private Alfresco Docker registry](docs/advanced-topics/working-with-enterprise/enterprise-docker-registry.md).
 
 ## For Developers that want to contribute to the SDK
-See the [Developers Wiki page](https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-sdk/wiki/Developer-Wiki).
+See the [Developers Wiki page](https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-sdk/wiki/Developer-Wiki).
+
+## Publishing the release on Maven Central
+- Manually change the version from SNAPSHOT to final (eg. when releasing SDK 4.11.0, replacing all the occurrences of 4.11.0-SNAPSHOT with 4.11.0)
+
+- Commit and push changes to GitHub with the commit message [publish], then it will automatically publish your artifacts to maven central
+
+At this point, we need to manually proceed with the remaining steps:
+
+1- Manually create a release tag on GitHub
+
+2- Manually change the version from final to next SNAPSHOT (eg. replacing all the occurrences of 4.11.0 with 4.12.0-SNAPSHOT (in pom.xml, not in READMEs - if not needed)
+
+3- Commit and push on GitHub

archetypes/alfresco-allinone-archetype/pom.xml

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.alfresco.maven</groupId>
     <artifactId>alfresco-sdk-aggregator</artifactId>
-    <version>4.11.0</version>
+    <version>4.12.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
 

archetypes/alfresco-platform-jar-archetype/pom.xml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.alfresco.maven</groupId>
     <artifactId>alfresco-sdk-aggregator</artifactId>
-    <version>4.11.0</version>
+    <version>4.12.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
 

archetypes/alfresco-share-jar-archetype/pom.xml

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.alfresco.maven</groupId>
         <artifactId>alfresco-sdk-aggregator</artifactId>
-        <version>4.11.0</version>
+        <version>4.12.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 

archetypes/archetypes-it/pom.xml

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.alfresco.maven</groupId>
         <artifactId>alfresco-sdk-aggregator</artifactId>
-        <version>4.11.0</version>
+        <version>4.12.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 

modules/alfresco-rad/pom.xml

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.alfresco.maven</groupId>
         <artifactId>alfresco-sdk-aggregator</artifactId>
-        <version>4.11.0</version>
+        <version>4.12.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 

plugins/alfresco-maven-plugin/pom.xml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.alfresco.maven</groupId>
         <artifactId>alfresco-sdk-aggregator</artifactId>
-        <version>4.11.0</version>
+        <version>4.12.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 

pom.xml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>org.alfresco.maven</groupId>
     <artifactId>alfresco-sdk-aggregator</artifactId>
-    <version>4.11.0</version>
+    <version>4.12.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <name>Alfresco SDK</name>
     <description>This aggregator Project builds all modules required for the Alfresco SDK</description>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>