Preparing the environment for publishing vie the Central Portal

Release manager should include the following sections in your personal settings.xml:

<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.2.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.2.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.2.0.xsd">
  <servers>
    <server>
      <id>sonatype-central-portal</id>
      <username>jqhacker</username> <!-- central portal token -->
      <password>SeCrEt</password> <!-- central portal token -->
      <configuration>
        <njord.publisher>sonatype-cp</njord.publisher>
        <njord.releaseUrl>njord:template:release-sca</njord.releaseUrl>
      </configuration>
    </server>
  </servers>
</settings>

Tokens can be obtained from https://central.sonatype.com/account