maven release plugin ignores releaseProfile

Question

I am using two profiles: development and production.

Development should be active on default; production should be used when I am releasing.

In my pom.xml I

Answer 1

I think you should simply activate your profiles through a property.

  
    production
    
      
        build
        release
      
    
    [...]
  
  
    development
    
      
        build
        develop
      
    
    [...]
  

Do your builds by executing something like this

mvn -Dbuild=develop package
mvn -Dbuild=develop test

mvn -Dbuild=release release:prepare
mvn -Dbuild=release release:perform