[afp-renderer-developers] Release procedures

[Joe S. <jo...@ex...>]

Just checked into CVS... the ant build now supports a "release" target,
which should simplify building release.

The following is a procedure/checklist which I think should be followed
for an official release. This procedure uses version 1.1.0 as an
example, and assumes a valid environment with CVSROOT, JAVA_HOME and
ANT_HOME correctly defined.

1) Make sure CHANGES, README, etc are up to date. Edit build.properties
to reflect the new release version, and check it into HEAD.
	
	dist.version = 1.1.0
	dist.type = 
	...
	cvs ci -m "Release 1.1.0" build.properties

2) Tag the new release in CVS.

	cvs rtag -rHEAD AFP_RENDERER_1_1_0 afp-fop-src

3) Checkout a clean workspace using the tag and cd into it

	cvs co -rAFP_RENDERER_1_0_0 afp-fop-src
	cd afp-fop-src

4) Run the release target in ant. This should create a new file called
afp-renderer-1.1.0.zip in the current directory. This is the file to be
published.

	ant release

5) Publish the release using the sourceforge admin interface.

6) To avoid accidentally creating a new release of the same name,
immediately bump up the build.properties version properties to the next
incremental release and check in.

	dist.version = 1.1.1
	dist.type = -dev
	...
	cvs ci -m "Release 1.1.1-dev" build.properties

I think that's about it. Thoughts? Comments?

Cheers,
Joe