Preparing a release

Things to do for releasing:

  • announce intent to release on gitter

  • check for open issues / pull requests that really should be in the release

    • come back when these are done

    • … or ignore them and do another release next week

  • check for deprecations “long enough ago” (two months or two releases, whichever is longer)

    • remove affected code

  • Do the actual release changeset

    • bump version number

      • increment as per Semantic Versioning rules

      • remove +dev tag from version number

    • Run towncrier

      • review history change

      • git rm changes

    • commit

  • push to your personal repository

  • create pull request to python-trio/trio’s “master” branch

  • verify that all checks succeeded

  • tag with vVERSION, push tag on python-trio/trio (not on your personal repository)

  • push to PyPI:

    git clean -xdf   # maybe run 'git clean -xdn' first to see what it will delete
    python3 setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
    twine upload dist/*
    
  • update version number in the same pull request

    • add +dev tag to the end

  • merge the release pull request

  • announce on gitter