Use oss-parent POM from Sonatype
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9678f55..da5d93c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>org.sonatype.oss</groupId>
+        <artifactId>oss-parent</artifactId>
+        <version>4</version>
+    </parent>
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>org.yaml</groupId>
     <artifactId>snakeyaml</artifactId>
     <version>1.8-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
-    <properties>
-        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-    </properties>
     <name>SnakeYAML</name>
     <description>YAML 1.1 parser and emitter for Java</description>
     <inceptionYear>2008</inceptionYear>
@@ -141,34 +143,6 @@
                 </executions>
             </plugin>
             <plugin>
-                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-                <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
-                <executions>
-                    <execution>
-                        <goals>
-                            <goal>jar</goal>
-                        </goals>
-                    </execution>
-                </executions>
-            </plugin>
-            <plugin>
-                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-                <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
-                <configuration>
-                    <links>
-                        <link>http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/</link>
-                    </links>
-                </configuration>
-                <executions>
-                    <execution>
-                        <id>attach-javadocs</id>
-                        <goals>
-                            <goal>jar</goal>
-                        </goals>
-                    </execution>
-                </executions>
-            </plugin>
-            <plugin>
                 <groupId>com.mycila.maven-license-plugin</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-license-plugin</artifactId>
                 <configuration>
@@ -253,46 +227,4 @@
             </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </reporting>
-    <profiles>
-        <profile>
-            <id>release</id>
-            <activation>
-                <property>
-                    <name>performRelease</name>
-                    <value>true</value>
-                </property>
-            </activation>
-            <build>
-                <plugins>
-                    <plugin>
-                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-                        <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
-                        <version>1.0-alpha-4</version>
-                        <executions>
-                            <execution>
-                                <id>sign-artifacts</id>
-                                <phase>verify</phase>
-                                <goals>
-                                    <goal>sign</goal>
-                                </goals>
-                            </execution>
-                        </executions>
-                    </plugin>
-                </plugins>
-            </build>
-            <distributionManagement>
-                <repository>
-                    <id>oss.sonatype.org-releases</id>
-                    <name>OSSRH Release Repository</name>
-                    <url>http://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/</url>
-                </repository>
-                <snapshotRepository>
-                    <id>oss.sonatype.org-snapshots</id>
-                    <name>OSSRH Snapshot Repository</name>
-                    <url>http://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
-                    <uniqueVersion>false</uniqueVersion>
-                </snapshotRepository>
-            </distributionManagement>
-        </profile>
-    </profiles>
 </project>
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 21cea00..edb40cf 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
 	</properties>

 	<body>

 	      <release version="1.8-SNAPSHOT" date="in Mercurial" description="development">

+            <action dev="py4fun" type="update">

+                Use oss-parent POM from Sonatype (2010-08-17)

+            </action>

             <action dev="py4fun" type="remove">

                 Cleanup unused code in deprecated Loader and Dumper (2010-08-13)

             </action>