It would be nice to allow us to make tags, branches and builds using mvn scripts.
Something like:
mvn release:prepare
mvn release:perform
mvn branch
Be noticed we have a beginning here dev\trunk\jpatterns.tools\ant\.
Please see the following article http://cxf.apache.org/connecting-maven-eclipse-checkstyle-and-pmd.html. As I could understand CFX project has example of how to make a full cycle build. We could download sources and check how it is done.
Thanks
Please study http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-releasing.html maven release plugin which has all we need.