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https://builds.apache.org/job/Netbeans/job/netbeans-TLP/job/netbeans/ should contains the release version to be published. Navigate to lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/mavenrepository/ in the target release to check that this repository is populated.
If something went wrong, prepare patch nb-repository-plugin and update build process https://github.com/apache/netbeans-jenkins-lib/blob/master/vars/asfMainNetBeansBuild.groovy to the version you want to use "def repopluginversion="1.7-SNAPSHOT".
Publishing
Release
(need improvement list findings.)
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