Release 1.4.6 and add instructions for maintainers. (dp-58) (#75)

* Release 1.4.6 and add instructions for maintainers.

* Additional release instructions (#76)

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Co-authored-by: Blake Smith <blakesmith0@gmail.com>

README.md

@@ -10,13 +10,13 @@ Add a dependency using Maven
 <dependency>
   <groupId>com.sproutsocial</groupId>
   <artifactId>nsq-j</artifactId>
-  <version>1.4.3</version>
+  <version>1.4.6</version>
 </dependency>
 ```
 or Gradle
 ```
 dependencies {
-  compile 'com.sproutsocial:nsq-j:1.4.3'
+  compile 'com.sproutsocial:nsq-j:1.4.6'
 }
 ```
 
@@ -116,3 +116,21 @@ If you just want to execute the test suite, you can use:
 
 > make clean test
 
+## Releasing a new version of `nsq-j` (for maintainers)
+
+### Bump the library version
+
+The `nsq-j` version is referenced in several places, such as this README,
+as well as in the pom file. See a prior release PR such as [this one](https://github.com/sproutsocial/nsq-j/pull/66)
+for an example.
+
+### Creating a Release
+
+0. Make sure you've bumped the library version (see previous section)
+1. Tag the release commit with the correct version number: `v${VERSION}`.
+2. Push the tag to GitHub
+3. Create a release in the GitHub UI. You can use GitHub's "Automatically generated release notes"
+4. Once a release has been created, GitHub actions will automatically push the tagged version to Maven Central
+
+Maven central usually takes a few hours to propagate through their caching / CDN infrastructure.
+

pom.xml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
     <groupId>com.sproutsocial</groupId>
     <artifactId>nsq-j</artifactId>
-    <version>1.4.5</version>
+    <version>1.4.6</version>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
     <name>nsq-j</name>

src/main/java/com/sproutsocial/nsq/Config.java

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ public class Config {
     private Boolean deflate;
     private Integer deflateLevel;
     private Integer sampleRate;
-    private String userAgent = "nsq-j/1.4.3";
+    private String userAgent = "nsq-j/1.4.6";
     private Integer msgTimeout;
 
     //region accessors