Next problem is that mvn repository:bundle-create complains about a missing LICENSE.txt file. What's that about!?
Looking in incubator general for other projects that asked the IPMC to ratify their maven artifacts, it looks like the preferred approach is to set up a "staging" repository in somebody's public-html directory, and deploy the artifacts there. The site http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-central-repository-upload.html does indicate that this is preferred to the manual update process. I will try to get this to work. -Adam