THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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(need improvement list findings.)
You shall have a PGP Key,.
Verify your need to be a PMC to do this with access to repository https://repository.apache.org/ (as commiter it should be automatic)
The release process is using Apache Maven. You need to have a settings.xml configured as follow https://www.apache.org/dev/publishing-maven-artifacts.html
get zip
from jenkins build and extract localy (ie https://builds.apache.org/job/Netbeans/job/netbeans-TLP/job/netbeans/job/release123/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/ ) repository is generated according to a git tag to match a released version
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