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 # enable-ci-cd-using-travis
 This project automatically apply CI/CD for your scalecube project. it apply the relevant script files for ci/cd that will manage the release/snapshoot versions and continusly deploy the artifacts to maven central.
 
+### Before starting you should test your project for deployablilty and releaseablility:
 
-In order to enable CI-CD on your project:
+0. Make sure your *default branch* contains a `pom.xml` file
+1. Make sure there are **no dependencies on snapshots** in the POMs to be released. However, the project you want to stage must be a **SNAPSHOT** version.
+2. Check that your POMs will not lose content when they are rewritten during the release process:
+2.1. Verify that all `pom.xml` files have an *SCM* definition. a parent project is sometime not suffice (e.g. in maven modules as git modules)
+3. Do a dryRun release: `mvn release:prepare -DdryRun=true` p.s. you may also wish to pass `-DautoVersionSubmodules=true` as this will save you time if your project is multi-module. Follow the warnings or errors during this build. **Fix** any error before enabling the CI on your project.
+3.1 Diff the original file `pom.xml` with the one called `pom.xml.tag` to see if the license or any other info has been removed. This has been known to happen if the starting **`<project>`** tag is **not** on a single line. The only things that should be different between these files are the **`<version>`** and **`<scm>`** elements. Any other changes you must backport yourself to the original `pom.xml` file and commit before proceeding with the release.
+
+### In order to enable CI-CD on your project:
 
 0. git clone git@github.com:scalecube/enable-ci-cd-using-travis.git
 1. download secrets file.
diff --git a/prepend.to.travis.yml b/prepend.to.travis.yml
index 9b9146f..fe777ab 100644
--- a/prepend.to.travis.yml
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@@ -2,4 +2,5 @@ addons:
   apt:
     packages:
     - libxml-xpath-perl
-sudo: required
\ No newline at end of file
+sudo: required
+