+ info for 0.5

Author: costin

build/build-continuous.xml

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
             <format property="tstamp" pattern="yyyyMMdd"/>
         </tstamp>
         <move file="${target.release.dir}/${release.zip}"
-            tofile="${upload.tmp.dir}/springmodules-${release.version}-${label}-${tstamp}.zip"/>
+            tofile="${upload.tmp.dir}/spring-modules-${release.version}-${label}-${tstamp}.zip"/>
     </target>
 
     <target name="upload" depends="upload-log, upload-binaries"/>

build/build.properties

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # configurable property values, may be locally overriden by a build.properties file
-release.version=0.5-dev
+release.version=0.5
 
 #include.sandbox=true
 
@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@ common.build.dir=${basedir}/../projects/common-build
 docs.dir=${basedir}/../docs
 # common build bootstrap
 bootstrap.dir=${basedir}/../projects/common-build-bootstrap
-project.name=springmodules-${release.version}
+project.name=spring-modules-${release.version}
 copyright=Copyright © 2005-2006. The Spring Modules Project. All Rights Reserved.

build/readme.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Doing  a release
+--------------------
+
+1. update build/build.properties and /docs/reference/src/index-module.xml with the release dates
+     
+2. test that everything is fine
+ ant clean-all release
+ see target/ folder
+   -- check that the docs are properly generated (including html and pdf)
+   -- check packages, including javadocs, sources and changelog
+   
+ 3. upload the jar without the full distro
+ 4. log into the jteam machine, add the distro and then upload it to java.net
+ 5. create a new version on JIRA and close the existing one
+ 6. do the version release on JIRA
+ 7. commit the 0.5 docs on the CVS website
+ 7.5. do a CVS tag
+ 8. update the project page
+ 
+ 9. post the announcement on the forum and then on Spring Framework site.
+ 
+