LF is working on optimizing the release process overall.
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For Nexus2 Maven releases, LF team is working on migrating the teams to use global-jjb {project-name}-maven-stage-{stream}
This job performs the following:
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Currently, having teams using {project-name}-maven-stage-{stream} will already reduce the time LF takes to make a release to just the time it takes to make 1 click in Nexus2.
LF team is also working on automating that last step.
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