Creating a Processing Release

• Review all examples included in the release to make sure they work with the most recent version of Processing. Fix any errors.

• Update changelog.txt

• Update library.properties (include info about what's in the update in the paragraph text)

• Update the download links in the documentation index (package.html in src/ddf/minim)

• Generate the documentation folder by running the 'doc' Ant task

• Export the repository and prune out the stuff that should not be included in the release (could automate this using a bash script and git archive). As of writing the release should contain:

  changelog.txt
  /documentation
  /examples
  //Advanced
  //Analysis
  //AudioPlayer
  //Basics
  //Synthesis
  /library
  library.properties
  license.txt
  README.md
  /src

• Zip up the contents of the release into a file named minim-X.X.X.zip

• Upload the zip to the distro folder on the web.

• Upload the documentation folder to the web

• Upload the javadoc folder to the web

• Replace minim_for_processing.zip in the distro folder with a copy of the new zip, but need to make sure the zip file creates a folder named 'minim' when it unpacks, otherwise it will not properly overwrite the older version in a user's libraries folder. To do this on Mac I had to take the unpacked release archive, rename the folder to 'minim' and the compress it to a new zip file. Simply duplicating and renaming the release zip file did not work.

• Update the contents of minim_for_processing.txt in the distro folder to match library.properties

• Verify that the Processing 3.0 library tool reports the new version and install it to make sure everything works as intended (they have a script that runs every day that updates a txt file on their website, so will need to wait a day to see the update in the library tool)

• Create a new Release on GitHub, the description should probably include the same paragraph from library.properties

• Blog / tweet about the release

• Have a beer / wonder how much of this could be automated with a script