This should be the parent pom for Englishtown open source maven projects.
Add the following to your pom:
<parent>
<groupId>com.englishtown</groupId>
<artifactId>oss-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
Also add distribution site and scm elements. These cannot be added in the parent do this issue http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SCM-531
<distributionManagement>
<site>
<id>sling.englishtown.com</id>
<url>
dav:https://sling.englishtown.com/content/docs/${project.groupId}/${project.artifactId}/${project.version}
</url>
</site>
</distributionManagement>
<!--Copy the below and uncomment in your pom-->
<scm>
<connection>scm:git:https://github.com/englishtown/${project.artifactId}.git</connection>
<developerConnection>scm:git:ssh://git@github.com/englishtown/${project.artifactId}.git</developerConnection>
<tag>HEAD</tag>
<url>https://github.com/englishtown/${project.artifactId}</url>
</scm>
mvn clean deploy
mvn -P oss-release clean deploy