Added aliases for ID's too, but this would probably be much neater as a build profile.

Author: anjackson

pom.xml

@@ -55,7 +55,9 @@
     <maven.build.timestamp.format>yyyyMMddhhmmss</maven.build.timestamp.format>
     <build.tag></build.tag>
     <!-- sonatype repositories are defaults for distributionManagement -->
+    <repository.id>sonatype-nexus-staging</repository.id>
     <repository.url>https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/</repository.url>
+    <snapshotRepository.id>sonatype-nexus-snapshots</snapshotRepository.id>
     <snapshotRepository.url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/</snapshotRepository.url>
   </properties>
 
@@ -245,11 +247,11 @@
 
   <distributionManagement>
     <repository>
-      <id>repository</id>
+      <id>${repository.id}</id>
       <url>${repository.url}</url>
     </repository>
     <snapshotRepository>
-      <id>snapshotRepository</id>
+      <id>${snapshotRepository.id}</id>
       <url>${snapshotRepository.url}</url>
     </snapshotRepository>
   </distributionManagement>