These steps explain what needs to be done to do a PVM release

1. Verify JIRA issues

2. Create release notes

3. Run and check the test suite and the continuous integration DB matrix

4. Create an SVN tag

5. ant -Dversion=1.0.alpha1 clean package

6. ant -Dversion=1.0.alpha1 publish

7. Copy locally published ivy module to the jboss repository and commit it

8. Upload zip file to sourceforge

9. Upload docs and manual

10. Spread the word through blogs, announcements and others