Travis and releases

Currently, the Travis builds aren’t working for PRs. Similarly, it’s not clear how a release is made. In fact, it appears that artifacts aren’t being released to Maven Central yet.

If there’s agreement, I would like to:

• Request a new project with Sonatype, to publish artifacts on Maven Central
• Create a bintray project for this repository
• Deprecate the dev branch, by having all development happening on master, as it’s usual for open source projects. For that, I’d just “force push” the current dev to master and remove the dev branch. Note that the version in the pom.xml for master is always -SNAPSHOT
• Fix Travis to have a build in stages. For instance, this could be used as a reference: https://github.com/opentracing-contrib/java-ejb/blob/master/.travis.yml
• With a setup like the above, creating a new release is just a matter of pushing a tag named release-x.x.x, where x.x.x is the version to be released
• Document this process by adding a RELEASE.md document

[heinrichreimer]

@jpkrohling isn’t the last point on your check list already fixed in #33?

[pinpong]

Can this issue be closed?