Profile activation on both release:prepare and release:perform

Question

I cannot find a solution for activating some Maven profile on release:prepare and release:perform (both) goals. Something like this:

Answer 1

Because maven release plugin start additional instance you have to specify additional arguments. For you case

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-release-plugin
    2.4
    
        ${myReleaseArgs}
    

and execution

mvn release:prepare release:perform -DmyReleaseArgs="-Pmy-release -DskipTests=true" -Pmy-release -DskipTests=true

and yes it must be duplicated.