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

This is a very old post but I came across this issue quite recently. The releaseProfile only worked for me when I set the releaseProfiles to profile called release. Any other profile gives same error.

Sample code:

    
        
            org.apache.maven.plugins
            maven-release-plugin
            2.5.3
            
                @{project.artifactId}-@{project.version}
                true
                release
                true
            
        
    


    
        release
        
            ${scm-base}/tags/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}