OK, so I tried to do a release (of the bus/nest components). After a few hours, I hit a brick wall and can't go further. Someone tell me what's wrong. First off, you need to fix all your javadoc warnings - because the release plugin will fail if you have any javadoc warnings. So I fixed those. I then did: mvn clean install -Prelease and it finished successfully. I then did: mvn clean release:clean release:prepare and it also finished successfully. I now have a 0.0.2 tag and the git repo looks correct. So I then did: mvn release:perform And it failed, like this: [INFO] [INFO] Hawkular Nest Distribution ......................... FAILURE [ 3.184 s] [INFO] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] [INFO] Total time: 02:46 min [INFO] [INFO] Finished at: 2015-05-19T17:19:38-04:00 [INFO] [INFO] Final Memory: 90M/560M [INFO] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-assembly-plugin:2.5.1:single (distro-assembly) on project hawkular-nest-distro: Failed to create assembly: Error creating assembly archive distribution: You must set at least one file. -> [Help 1] I have no idea why this failed when all the other builds were successful. Even Travis finished building successfully! See: http://travis-ci.org/hawkular/hawkular-bus/builds/63241958 ... and FYI: Nexus has a snapshot repo with all of my artifacts except for that last one that failed to build. So Nexus isn't the problem. How do you debug this? I googled that error message and nothing came up as an obvious fix. So, after a couple hours, I still have no idea how to do a release successfully, which is odd since I've been told this was supposed to only take me a few seconds to complete :)