Merge pull request #319

This closes #319
diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES b/RELEASE_NOTES
index ece3878..7da5c39 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   - Edgent Samples bundle
 
 A release now publishes the Edgent SDK jars in Apache Nexus Release
-repository and to the Maven Central repository.
+repository which are automatically mirrored to the Maven Central repository.
 
 A binary bundle (tgz) is no longer released.  The new `get-edgent-jars.sh`
 tool included in the Samples source bundle can be used to create such
diff --git a/platforms/android/analytics/math3/pom.xml b/platforms/android/analytics/math3/pom.xml
index 1222934..9044381 100644
--- a/platforms/android/analytics/math3/pom.xml
+++ b/platforms/android/analytics/math3/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
   <parent>
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     <artifactId>edgent-analytics</artifactId>
-    <version>1.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
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   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>edgent-analytics-math3</artifactId>
diff --git a/platforms/android/analytics/pom.xml b/platforms/android/analytics/pom.xml
index 2fd9407..3fd6c73 100644
--- a/platforms/android/analytics/pom.xml
+++ b/platforms/android/analytics/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
   <parent>
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     <artifactId>edgent-platforms-android</artifactId>
-    <version>1.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
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   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>edgent-analytics</artifactId>
diff --git a/platforms/android/analytics/sensors/pom.xml b/platforms/android/analytics/sensors/pom.xml
index 734a34a..f9cd0f9 100644
--- a/platforms/android/analytics/sensors/pom.xml
+++ b/platforms/android/analytics/sensors/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
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   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>edgent-analytics-sensors</artifactId>
diff --git a/platforms/android/android/hardware/pom.xml b/platforms/android/android/hardware/pom.xml
index 9ec3c90..ea59b36 100644
--- a/platforms/android/android/hardware/pom.xml
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
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   <artifactId>edgent-android-hardware</artifactId>
diff --git a/platforms/android/android/pom.xml b/platforms/android/android/pom.xml
index d318d8f..047cd2a 100644
--- a/platforms/android/android/pom.xml
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
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   <artifactId>edgent-android</artifactId>
diff --git a/platforms/android/android/topology/pom.xml b/platforms/android/android/topology/pom.xml
index 1c4d1f7..59dd567 100644
--- a/platforms/android/android/topology/pom.xml
+++ b/platforms/android/android/topology/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
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   <artifactId>edgent-android-topology</artifactId>
diff --git a/platforms/android/api/execution/pom.xml b/platforms/android/api/execution/pom.xml
index 929e2a1..36bce47 100644
--- a/platforms/android/api/execution/pom.xml
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
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   <artifactId>edgent-api-execution</artifactId>
diff --git a/platforms/android/api/function/pom.xml b/platforms/android/api/function/pom.xml
index 8e60dc1..7d1ef14 100644
--- a/platforms/android/api/function/pom.xml
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
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diff --git a/platforms/android/api/graph/pom.xml b/platforms/android/api/graph/pom.xml
index 99317dd..ec2656f 100644
--- a/platforms/android/api/graph/pom.xml
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
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   <artifactId>edgent-api-graph</artifactId>
diff --git a/platforms/android/api/oplet/pom.xml b/platforms/android/api/oplet/pom.xml
index 9a1189e..7682dd4 100644
--- a/platforms/android/api/oplet/pom.xml
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
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   <artifactId>edgent-api-oplet</artifactId>
diff --git a/platforms/android/api/pom.xml b/platforms/android/api/pom.xml
index 39c35fc..c3a8f33 100644
--- a/platforms/android/api/pom.xml
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   <artifactId>edgent-api</artifactId>
diff --git a/platforms/android/api/topology/pom.xml b/platforms/android/api/topology/pom.xml
index d59efb3..edb6249 100644
--- a/platforms/android/api/topology/pom.xml
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
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   <artifactId>edgent-api-topology</artifactId>
diff --git a/platforms/android/api/window/pom.xml b/platforms/android/api/window/pom.xml
index 4143461..c3a0a9e 100644
--- a/platforms/android/api/window/pom.xml
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
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   <artifactId>edgent-api-window</artifactId>
diff --git a/platforms/android/apps/iot/pom.xml b/platforms/android/apps/iot/pom.xml
index 4e0dd79..3c8016d 100644
--- a/platforms/android/apps/iot/pom.xml
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
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   <artifactId>edgent-apps-iot</artifactId>
diff --git a/platforms/android/apps/pom.xml b/platforms/android/apps/pom.xml
index 3999fa2..9117696 100644
--- a/platforms/android/apps/pom.xml
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
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   <artifactId>edgent-apps</artifactId>
diff --git a/platforms/android/apps/runtime/pom.xml b/platforms/android/apps/runtime/pom.xml
index 3afdfed..7b9af17 100644
--- a/platforms/android/apps/runtime/pom.xml
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   <artifactId>edgent-apps-runtime</artifactId>
diff --git a/platforms/android/connectors/command/pom.xml b/platforms/android/connectors/command/pom.xml
index 39a93ba..f56831a 100644
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diff --git a/platforms/android/connectors/common/pom.xml b/platforms/android/connectors/common/pom.xml
index 6c2b086..f341c5c 100644
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diff --git a/platforms/android/connectors/csv/pom.xml b/platforms/android/connectors/csv/pom.xml
index 8290e9a..cfbc439 100644
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diff --git a/platforms/android/connectors/file/pom.xml b/platforms/android/connectors/file/pom.xml
index 2430b46..11965d7 100644
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diff --git a/platforms/android/connectors/http/pom.xml b/platforms/android/connectors/http/pom.xml
index 9c40484f..e0c3790 100644
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diff --git a/platforms/android/connectors/iot/pom.xml b/platforms/android/connectors/iot/pom.xml
index 63ddb5b..1ba1e5d 100644
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diff --git a/platforms/android/connectors/iotp/pom.xml b/platforms/android/connectors/iotp/pom.xml
index f09cfef..fd97022 100644
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diff --git a/platforms/android/connectors/jdbc/pom.xml b/platforms/android/connectors/jdbc/pom.xml
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diff --git a/platforms/android/connectors/kafka/pom.xml b/platforms/android/connectors/kafka/pom.xml
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diff --git a/platforms/android/connectors/mqtt/pom.xml b/platforms/android/connectors/mqtt/pom.xml
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diff --git a/platforms/android/connectors/pom.xml b/platforms/android/connectors/pom.xml
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diff --git a/platforms/android/connectors/pubsub/pom.xml b/platforms/android/connectors/pubsub/pom.xml
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diff --git a/platforms/android/connectors/websocket-base/pom.xml b/platforms/android/connectors/websocket-base/pom.xml
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diff --git a/platforms/android/runtime/etiao/pom.xml b/platforms/android/runtime/etiao/pom.xml
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diff --git a/src/site/asciidoc/releasing.adoc b/src/site/asciidoc/releasing.adoc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d7a6525
--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+////
+
+  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.
+
+////
+
+# Releasing Edgent
+
+In general the `master` branch contains the repository state of the latest release of Edgent.
+No commit should be done to `master` except for merging after a successful release.
+
+Normal development is done in the `develop` branch or in feature branches that are merged to `develop` after they are finished.
+
+A version is built up of three parts: `major`.`minor`.`bugfix`. For each major and minor version a corresponding `release` branch is maintained.
+This allows shipping of bug-fix releases, if this is required. For bug-fix releases no new branch is created.
+
+Assuming develop is currently in version `1.2.0-SNAPSHOT` and we are preparing a new release, then we would first create a `release/1.2` branch. Within this branch, the Edgent version is `1.2.0-SNAPSHOT` and develop becomes `1.3.0-SNAPSHOT`.
+In the `release/1.2` branch all work prior to cutting a release or for fixing bug-fixes in an existing release can be performed. This branch is usually used to stabilize the software prior to a release.
+
+As soon as the release branch is stable enough, the release manager cuts a release.
+
+When doing this, all modules versions are set to a release version, this version is committed and tagged and then the version is usually incremented to the next higher bug-fix version.
+So if the `release/1.2` branch is currently in version `1.2.0-SNAPSHOT`, the versions are changed to `1.2.0` and after the committing and tagging the version is updated to `1.2.1-SNAPSHOT`.
+
+All of these steps are automated by the `maven-release-plugin`.
+
+## Creating the release branch
+
+A new release branch is always created from the `develop` branch. So make sure all changes have been pulled and the repo is up to date.
+
+The following command performs the branching:
+
+    mvn release:branch -P platform-android,platform-java7,distribution -DbranchName=release/1.2 -DautoVersionSubmodules=true
+
+Without the `-DautoVersionSubmodules=true` we would have to specify the version for each module separately. This way we only have to specify the version of the root module and all children will inherit this version.
+
+Also the only way all modules are processed, is if we enable the `distribution` and the two `platform-android` and `platform-java7` profiles.
+
+After this the branches and the changes are committed, but not yet pushed. So as a last step here the release-manager needs to push the changes in his git repo.
+
+
+## Preparing a release
+
+To be continued ...
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