update the release date in the changelog
change config/pmd.props to reflect actual pmd.jar file version
change config/pmd.props to reflect the new pmd-jedit release version.
change config/jedit.html to reflect the new pmd-jedit release version.
change the build.xml to reflect pmd-jedit release
update doing_the_next_pmd_jedit_release.txt(this file) to the new pmd-jedit release version
commit the above changes FIRST!!

Create the binary release - 'ant release'
Unzip it into jedit.home/jars
TESTS:
1) Can you run jedit ok?
2) Can you run it it on a file and find some unused code?
3) Are options persistant?
4) Does CPD work?
5) Check if the PMD Help shows correct data like Release notes, help/new features.
6) Re-Commit if changes were made in the above steps first!!
Create the src release:
cvs -q rtag -D tomorrow "pmd_jedit_release_2_6" pmd-jedit
rm -rf ~/tmp/pmd-jedit
mkdir -p ~/tmp/pmd-jedit
cvs -q export -d tmp -r pmd_jedit_release_2_6 pmd-jedit
mv tmp/* ~/tmp/pmd-jedit
rmdir tmp/
cp pmd-jedit/PMDPlugin/lib/PMDPlugin.jar ~/tmp/pmd-jedit/PMDPlugin/lib
copy other relevant libraries to ~/tmp/pmd-jedit/PMDPlugin/lib
cd ~/tmp
zip -q -r pmd-jedit-src-2.6.zip pmd-jedit
rm -rf pmd-jedit

ncftpput upload.sourceforge.net incoming/ pmd-jedit-src-2.6.zip pmd-jedit-bin-2.6.zip

Go to Admin, Edit/Release Files, click on Add new release
Paste stuff into the changelog/readme boxes
Add the 2 zip files
Classify the file

Submit some news saying "hey, new release of the JEdit plugin!"


Life saving commands :)

To retag a file to a new version.
To move a symbolic tag to a different version (using the numeric number), use the following:

    cvs tag -r new-number -F symbolic-name filename

For example, if you needed to update foo.c after testing, and the symbolic tag MPICH2_1_0_3_rc1 originally pointed at version 1.16 for this file but the corrected version was 1.17, use

    cvs tag -r 1.17 -F MPICH2_1_0_3_rc1 foo.c