Without a `<version>` of its own, how will this then be released? When jclouds-project:1.7.0 is released this project, since it inherits the version, will also automatically be at 1.7.0.

I think each project here will need its own `<version>` (I'm not sure then if `<jclouds.version>` is still relevant, because that should then be `${project.parent.version}`) and then the release process will require three steps:

  1. Set the version of the _parent_ to the released version (this leaves _this_ project with a snapshot version)
  2. Release this project, which will afterwards be back to a snapshot version
  3. Set the parent version back to the snapshot