ATLAS-1000: added build instructions to README.txt
diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
index fc84a5e..778bc93 100755
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -37,4 +37,25 @@
For more information about the incubation status of the Apache Atlas
project you can go to the following page:
-http://incubator.apache.org/projects/atlas.html
\ No newline at end of file
+http://incubator.apache.org/projects/atlas.html
+
+Build Process
+=============
+
+1. Check out the code from GIT repository
+ $ git clone https://github.com/apache/incubator-atlas.git
+
+2. Execute the following commands to build Apache Atlas
+
+ $ cd incubator-atlas
+ $ export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xms2g -Xmx2g -XX:MaxPermSize=512M"
+ $ mvn clean install
+ $ mvn clean package -Pdist
+
+3. After the above build commands successfully complete, you should see the following files
+
+ webapp/target/atlas-webapp-<version>.war
+ addons/falcon-bridge/target/falcon-bridge-<version>.jar
+ addons/hive-bridge/target/hive-bridge-<version>.jar
+ addons/sqoop-bridge/target/sqoop-bridge-<version>.jar
+ addons/storm-bridge/target/storm-bridge-<version>.jar
diff --git a/release-build.xml b/release-build.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9b0b38f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release-build.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ The ASF licenses this file to You 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 name="Apache Atlas Release Tasks" default="build-release">
+ <description>
+ Apache Atlas Build Release Tasks
+ </description>
+
+ <property name="release-dir" value="target" />
+ <property name="incubationstr" value="-incubating" />
+ <property name="release-name" value="apache-atlas-${atlas-release-version}${incubationstr}" />
+
+ <property name="build-release-tar-file" value="${release-name}-sources.tar.gz" />
+
+ <target name="version-check">
+ <fail message="Missing atlas-release-version; -Datlas-release-version=<version-number> should be defined"
+ unless="atlas-release-version" />
+ </target>
+
+ <target name="build-release" depends="version-check">
+ <tstamp/>
+ <exec executable="mvn">
+ <arg value="clean" />
+ </exec>
+ <mkdir dir="${release-dir}" />
+ <tar destfile="${release-dir}/${build-release-tar-file}" compression="gzip" longfile="posix">
+ <tarfileset prefix="${release-name}" dir=".">
+ <exclude name="git" />
+ <exclude name="*/.gitignore" />
+ <exclude name=".settings/**" />
+ <exclude name="*/.settings/**" />
+ <exclude name=".classpath" />
+ <exclude name="*/.classpath" />
+ <exclude name=".project" />
+ <exclude name="*/.project" />
+ <exclude name="winpkg/*" />
+ <exclude name="hdfs-agent/dependency-reduced-pom.xml" />
+ <exclude name="*/bin/**" />
+ <exclude name="*/target/**" />
+ <exclude name="**/.DS_Store" />
+ <exclude name="target/**" />
+ </tarfileset>
+ </tar>
+
+ <exec executable="gpg">
+ <arg value="--armor" />
+ <arg value="--output" />
+ <arg value="${release-dir}/${build-release-tar-file}.asc" />
+ <arg value="--detach-sig" />
+ <arg value="${release-dir}/${build-release-tar-file}" />
+ </exec>
+
+ <exec executable="gpg" output="${release-dir}/${build-release-tar-file}.mds">
+ <arg value="--print-mds" />
+ <arg value="${release-dir}/${build-release-tar-file}" />
+ </exec>
+ </target>
+</project>
