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- login as glast or srs on host like fermilnx-14.
- Use the command 'wget -v <url>' to download the version of maven from maven home/Download. Select the closest mirror site.
- Download the file to the shadow directory /afs/.slac/package/java/common/contrib, unzip and untar the file
- Run the release command /afs/slac/package/java/build/release (7 and 8 are the same except one says '7' the other says '8'
- or Run the release command with the argument 'common' to just release maven
- Done. Don't need to announce it.
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