Forge and maven

Ive set up and API for one of my mods, and am having some trouble with setting up the maven. I plan to upload it to the central repository. With little to no tutorials on how to do it online, ive given up and am going to ask people for help. So far Ive managed to set up the project with maven, submit a JIRA ticket and do (most) of the pom. Ive also managed to use Kleopatra (a GUI version of GPG) to verify the integrity of my .jar and my pom.xml. For reference, heres my pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>harshencastle</groupId>
  <artifactId>HarshenCastle</artifactId>
  <version>1.0</version>
  <properties>
    <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
    <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
  </properties>
</project>

Im not sure if theres somthing im doing very wrong or whats going on. I havent used Maven before and i think itll probally show. One day ill look back on this and cringe at how naive and stupid I was. But untill then...

Edited October 16, 20177 yr by wyn_price