Below the informal release procedure to be run
as Release Candidate for all items with a star (*)
and if successful again for all items.
							Time (MacOS 2.3 GHz Intel/MacOS Pro*)
1.  *Update News Item in VectorGraphics				-
    *Update Release Notes
    *Check output files
    *Update reference plots
2.  *Commit							-
2.a *Try "mvn; mvn package assembly:attached" and check zip and tar files.
no duplicate versions in -bin should exist. The current assembly plugin 2.2-beta-1
may include those. Make sure all dependencies just point to the same version of a jar.  
3.  *mvn -DdryRun release:prepare				 2:12
4.  *mvn release:clean						 0:10*
5.  *mvn release:prepare					 4:36*
6.  *mvn release:perform					26:33*
    *mvn deploy
7.  *log into Windows/Unix and check out tag, and run 	     (Linux)     (Win)
7.a   *mvn -Dvg.local=false					 1:43	 4:03
7.b   *mvn site:site						 6:22	 2:25
7.c   *mvn site:deploy						 2:04    3:11
8.  *check out tag						-
9.  *mvn javadoc:javadoc					 0:41
10. *mvn site:site						 0:59
11. *mvn -Dvg.local=false					 1:47
12. *mvn -Dvg.local=false package assembly:attached		 1:52
13. *check tar and zip files					-
14. copy tar and zip files					-
15. update jira project						-
16. update news main site					-
17. announce forum						-
18. announce mailing list					-
 
