[Commons Wiki] Update of "CreatingReleases" by SiegfriedGoeschl

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   * Make sure that there are no major bugs in JIRA
   * Make sure to add all missing committers and contributers
  
+ ==== B.2 Prepare Your Version Number ====
+ 
+ A guideline regarding version numbering can be found at [http://commons.apache.org/releases/versioning.html] - within Commons we reached the following consensus
+ 
+  * when your release a new major or minor version it comes without point release number, e.g "foo-1.0.jar" or "foo-2.1.jar"
+  * when doing a bugfix release your need to add the point release number, e.g "foo-1.0.1.jar" or "foo-2.1.1.jar"
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- ==== B.2 Prepare Your Maven Variables ====
+ ==== B.3 Prepare Your Maven Variables ====
  
  During the staging process a directory is created on ''people.apache.org'' based on the content of the following Maven variables
  
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- ==== B.4 Prepare Your Assembly Descriptors ====
+ ==== B.5 Prepare Your Assembly Descriptors ====
  
  If you are declaring/using your own assembly descriptors make sure that they are not using ${version} but ${commons.release.version} - there seems to be an odd bug which results in an incorrectly expanded version string, e.g. {{{commons-exec-2.4.1-src}}}. If in doubt look at {{{./src/assembly/src.xml}}}
  
- ==== B.5 Dry Run Your Maven Release ====
+ ==== B.6 Dry Run Your Maven Release ====
  
  Check that your poms will not lose content when they are rewritten during the release process.
  

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