build: switch from beta releases to SNAPSHOT deploys

- Renamed workflow: Beta Release → Snapshot Deploy
- Version stays 0.1.0-SNAPSHOT in pom.xml (no auto-increment)
- Deploys to OSSRH snapshots (not Maven Central)
- No GPG signing needed for SNAPSHOTs
- No git tags, no GitHub releases
- SNAPSHOTs can be overwritten freely without polluting Maven Central
- Stable releases still use release-java.yml with GPG + Central Portal

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: aksOps

.github/workflows/beta-java.yml

@@ -1,20 +1,18 @@
-name: Beta Release (Java)
+name: Snapshot Deploy (Java)
 on:
   push:
     branches: [java]
     paths: ['src/**', 'pom.xml']
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 jobs:
-  beta:
+  snapshot:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     permissions:
-      contents: write
+      contents: read
       packages: write
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
 
       - uses: actions/setup-java@v4
         with:
@@ -24,52 +22,12 @@ jobs:
           server-id: central
           server-username: MAVEN_USERNAME
           server-password: MAVEN_PASSWORD
-          gpg-private-key: ${{ secrets.MAVEN_GPG_PRIVATE_KEY }}
-
-      - name: Determine beta version
-        id: version
-        run: |
-          LATEST_BETA=$(git tag -l 'v0.0.1-beta.*' | sort -V | tail -1)
-          if [ -z "$LATEST_BETA" ]; then
-            NEXT_NUM=0
-          else
-            CURRENT_NUM=$(echo "$LATEST_BETA" | grep -oP 'beta\.\K[0-9]+')
-            NEXT_NUM=$((CURRENT_NUM + 1))
-          fi
-          VERSION="0.0.1-beta.${NEXT_NUM}"
-          echo "version=$VERSION" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          echo "tag=v$VERSION" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          echo "Next beta version: $VERSION"
-
-      - name: Set version in pom.xml
-        env:
-          BETA_VERSION: ${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}
-        run: mvn versions:set -DnewVersion="$BETA_VERSION" -B
 
       - name: Build and test
         run: mvn clean verify -B
 
-      - name: Deploy to Maven Central
+      - name: Deploy SNAPSHOT to OSSRH
         env:
           MAVEN_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.OSS_NEXUS_USER }}
           MAVEN_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.OSS_NEXUS_PASS }}
-        run: mvn deploy -DskipTests -B
-
-      - name: Create git tag
-        env:
-          BETA_TAG: ${{ steps.version.outputs.tag }}
-          BETA_VERSION: ${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}
-        run: |
-          git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
-          git config user.email "github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
-          git tag -a "$BETA_TAG" -m "Beta release $BETA_VERSION"
-          git push origin "$BETA_TAG"
-
-      - name: Create GitHub Release
-        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
-        with:
-          tag_name: ${{ steps.version.outputs.tag }}
-          name: "Beta ${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}"
-          prerelease: true
-          generate_release_notes: true
-          files: target/code-iq-*.jar
+        run: mvn deploy -DskipTests -Dgpg.skip=true -B

pom.xml

@@ -32,6 +32,14 @@
         <checkstyle-plugin.version>3.6.0</checkstyle-plugin.version>
     </properties>
 
+    <!-- SNAPSHOTs go to OSSRH, releases go via Central Publishing Plugin -->
+    <distributionManagement>
+        <snapshotRepository>
+            <id>central</id>
+            <url>https://s01.oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
+        </snapshotRepository>
+    </distributionManagement>
+
     <dependencyManagement>
         <dependencies>
             <dependency>