>> Some of the tests do consistently fail on my laptop during the release process....
Strange but not surprising - the MINA and NETTY tests do have inconsistent intermittent failures . Usually if I run `mvn -rf :sshd-mina` (or whatever failed) a few times they succeed. Note that it can happen also for sshd-scp, sshd-sftp and others when run with the MINA or NETTY implementations instead of NIO. BTW, most of the time I compile the code on Windows - the few times I tried it on Linux it succeeded - though I did encounter strange intermittent failures from time to time. Personally, I do not think it is an issue as long as the default (NIO) succeeds and I do not deem this important enough to delay the release. Therefore I recommend the following: * Try `mvn -rf :sshd-mina` (or whatever failed) 2-3 times * If other modules fail, make sure NIO succeeds - simply add `-Dtest.mina=disable` (or -Dtest.netty=disable) to skip the relevant I/O factory implementation. * If NIO succeeds but the rest fail consistently, add the failing tests to the already existing exclusion list(s) in the relevant POM(s) under the maven-surefire-plugin. It is not optimal, but assuming we are talking about a minority of the tests failing I believe it is acceptable - as long as the "main" NIO (default) implementation passes. Note that there is a pending TODO to figure out why these tests fail intermittently but we never seem to have enough time or manpower to do that...
