Pre-release steps

1. [D] Download the installation RPM nexus-2.1.2-1.el5.x86_64.rpm.

Release steps

1. [D] set up the outage page redirect. You can use the same page we use for Magnolia as the target. But beware! Everything under https://repository.jboss.org/content must not display the outage page, but return 503 (service temporarily unavailable) instead
2. [D] Wait till the scheduled disk backup is complete
3. [D] Install the RPM
4. [D] start the service
   ./nexus start
5. [D,H] check the nexus-gc.log for errors
6. [H] check the functionality
7. [D] remove the redirect to the maintenance page and the error code

Rollback

1. [D] stop the new version of nexus
2. [D] ask IT to revert the disk to the last backup
3. [D] start Nexus service
4. [H] check the functionality
5. [D] remove the redirect to the maintenance page