Once you complete the process outlined in Section 9.11, “Performing a Staged Deployment with Maven”, you will then have an automatically generated Staging Repository. In this section, you will walk through the process of managing staging repositories. Once a staging repository has been created, there are two steps in the lifecycle of a staging repository. Once you have deployed a set of related artifacts, you must "Close" the repository moving it from an "Open" to a "Closed" state. Once a repository is in the "Closed" state it is added to a Repository Group and is made available for testing purposes. Once testing is completed, a Nexus administrator can either Promote or Drop a Closed repository. If the repository is Dropped, the repository is discarded and removed from the Repository Group. If the repository is Promoted, the Nexus administrator can select a Hosted repository and publish the contents of the temporary staging repository to a Hosted repository.