This page is here just to remind the despots what to do to put out a release. It’s also here to embarrass us into automating as much of it as we can, because it’s really dull doing a release!

Release IDEA plugin

• Fire up IDEA using a 1.5 JDK
  • IDEA_JDK=/path/to/jdk1.5 /path/to/idea.sh
• In IDEA, open the project file in $JBEHAVE/plugins/intellij
• Set project compiler to IDEA SDK (pointing at your IDEA installation)
• If necessary, add idea.jar to IDEA SDK libs
• Right-click on the project and select “Prepare Plugin Module for Deployment”
• Login to http://plugins.intellij.net and upload the new version of the plugin
  • The only thing that seems not to be defaulted correctly is the license url, which should be http://jbehave.org/software/project-license/

Release Eclipse plugin

• Open $JBEHAVE/plugins/eclipse/.project in a new workspace
• in MANIFEST.MF update the plugin version
• in feature.xml overview tab, update the feature version
• Delete any existing jars under eclipse-site
• in site.xml, update version numbers in the text file wherever you see them.
• Close and reopen the site.xml file (the editor seems a bit flaky).
• In site.xml Site Map tab, click on Build All
• Sync eclipse-site over webdav to https://dav.codehaus.org/dist/jbehave/eclipse-site/

Release binaries

• Run ant -Dversion=x.y.z dist (creates jars, source zip and javadocs)
• Sync binaries over webdav to https://dav.codehaus.org/dist/jbehave/x.y.z
• sync javadoc over webdav to https://dav.codehaus.org/jbehave/javadoc/x.y.z

Update the website

• Put an announcement on http://jbehave.org/
• Update the links on http://jbehave.org/software/download/
• Update the “Latest javadoc” link on http://jbehave.org/documentation/

Tag the release

• svn cp https://svn.codehaus.org/jbehave/trunk https://svn.codehaus.org/jbehave/releases/x.y.z

Have a nice cup of tea

• and think about how this could be made easier