How To Release

This guide was created for issue #6 Release 1.0.0.

Changes to a regular Maven release are:

• addition of tycho-versions-plugin to handle manifest, feature and product versions
• removal of maven-deploy-plugin, since we don't need this application in Maven Central

More information on how to release with Tycho can be found here.

Pre-Release Steps

1. Check XXX - if the application has any of those, it's not releasable yet.
2. Check TODOs and FIXMEs: Create issues for the next milestone(s) or fix them
3. Check documentations for any obvious spelling mistakes (README.md and all user manuals)

Release

mvn clean release:prepare -DreleaseVersion=1.0.0 -DdevelopmentVersion=1.1.0-SNAPSHOT -DscmCommentPrefix="[#6] " -B
mvn release:perform

Post-Release Steps

1. Find the ZIP file in target/checkout/de.slothsoft.mp4spliterator.assembly/target/mp4spliterator-<version>.zip
2. Check the release ZIP contains the following files:
   • EXE file and Eclipse application (plugins/ folder, .ini file etc.)
   • README.html and docs/ folder
   • LICENSE file
   • Developer Manual.html with contents of README.md
3. Create a GitHub release from the freshly created tag; the description should be taken from the README.md
   • Title: v<version>
   • Description: <version description>: [Issues](https://github.com/slothsoft/mp4-spliterator/milestone/x?closed=1)

New Milestone

1. Create issues and add them to a new milestone
2. Each milestone should have a release issue like this
3. Each milestone should have a test issue like this
4. Add new version to table in README.md