update run.bat, astviewer.*, bgastviewer.*, cygwin-run.sh, cpd.jnlp, cpdgui.bat, build.xml, CommandLineOptions.java to point to pmd-1.7.jar
update xdocs/running.xml, compiling.xml, integrations.xml, installing.xml to reflect pmd-1.7
update the release date in the changelog
move rules from "newrules.xml" into a real ruleset file
update release number and tag name in project.xml

ant dist test
Do all the JUnit tests run?  OK, then:
ant dist                

TESTS: Can you
1) run 1 file and get a report
./run.sh ~/tmp/Test.java xml rulesets/unusedcode.xml
./run.sh ~/tmp/Test.java html rulesets/unusedcode.xml
2) run the Ant 'pmd' task and get a report
ant pmd

cd ..
./docs all
cd etc

Prepare binary release:
rm -rf ~/tmp/pmd-1.7
mkdir -p ~/tmp/pmd-1.7/etc
mkdir ~/tmp/pmd-1.7/lib
cp ../LICENSE.txt run.* cygwin-run.sh build.xml cpdgui.bat changelog.txt astviewer.* ~/tmp/pmd-1.7/etc
cp ../lib/pmd-1.7.jar ../lib/xmlParserAPIs-2.0.2.jar ../lib/xercesImpl-2.0.2.jar ../lib/jaxen-core-1.0-fcs.jar ../lib/saxpath-1.0-fcs.jar  ~/tmp/pmd-1.7/lib/
cp -R xslt/ ~/tmp/pmd-1.7/etc/xslt/
cp -R ../target/docs ~/tmp/pmd-1.7
cd ~/tmp
zip -q -r pmd-bin-1.7.zip pmd-1.7/
cd -

Time to tag:

cd ../../
cvs -q tag -D tomorrow "pmd_release_1_7" pmd

Prepare source release:
rm -rf ~/tmp/pmd-1.7
rm -rf ~/tmp/pmd-src-1.7.zip
cd pmd/etc
ant jarsrc
cd ../../
rm -rf tmp/
mkdir tmp
cd tmp
cvs -q export -r pmd_release_1_7 pmd
mv pmd/ pmd-1.7/
cd ..
cp pmd/lib/pmd-src-1.7.jar tmp/pmd-1.7/lib/
mv tmp/pmd-1.7/ ~/tmp/
cp pmd/lib/pmd-1.7.jar ~/tmp/pmd-1.7/lib
cp -R pmd/target/docs ~/tmp/pmd-1.7/
cd ~/tmp/
zip -q -r pmd-src-1.7.zip pmd-1.7/

if you see a bug and fix it, you can delete the release using:
cvs rtag -d pmd_release_1_7 pmd
and then retag everything

ncftpput upload.sourceforge.net incoming/ pmd-src-1.7.zip pmd-bin-1.7.zip

Go to Admin, Edit/Release Files, click on Add new release
Paste stuff into the changelog/readme boxes
Add the pmd-bin-1.7.zip file
Add the pmd-src-1.7.zip file
Classify the file

Redo the web site
cd ~/data/pmd/pmd
./docs.sh upload

Submit some news saying "hey, new release!"
Go to http://freshmeat.net/, say "hey, new release!"