Releasing (post 2020)

• Announce the upcoming release on docutils-develop list.

  Consider feature freeze or/and check-in freeze .

• Update RELEASE-NOTES.txt add section Release <version>.

  Consult HISTORY.txt for important changes.

• Change HISTORY.txt title Changes Since <previous release> to Release <version>.

• Set new version with sandbox/infrastructure/set_version.sh <version>

  Check what was changed with version control system by set_version.sh

  Run tests

  export PYTHONWARNINGS=default
  python2 test/alltests.py
  python3 test/alltests.py
  

  or use tox.

  export PYTHONWARNINGS=default prints DeprecationWarnings in python3.

• Generate universal wheel and source-distribution:

  python3 setup.py sdist
  python3 setup.py bdist_wheel --universal
  

• Upload universal wheel and source to test.pypi:

  python3 -m twine upload --repository-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/*
  

  Wait some minutes to test in virtualenv

  python2 -m virtualenv du2 ; cd du2
  export PYTHONPATH= ; . bin/activate
  
  python -m pip install --index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ --no-deps docutils
  
  cp -Lr ../docutils-code/docutils/test .
  python test/alltests.py
  
  python -m pip uninstall docutils
  deactivate ; cd .. ; rm -r du2
  

  Test in venv

  python3 -m venv du3 ; cd du3
  export PYTHONPATH= ; . bin/activate
  
  python -m pip install --index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ --no-deps docutils
  
  cp -Lr ../docutils-code/docutils/test .
  python test/alltests.py
  
  python -m pip uninstall docutils
  deactivate ; cd .. ; rm -r du3
  

• Commit changes ... the changed version number.

• tag 0.## (Note: only directory docutils is copied):

  svn copy svn+ssh://grubert@svn.code.sf.net/p/docutils/code/trunk/docutils \
           svn+ssh://grubert@svn.code.sf.net/p/docutils/code/tags/docutils-0.## \
           -m "tagging release 0.##"
  

• Now upload to pypi:

  python3 -m twine upload  dist/docutils-0.##*
  

  and test:

  python3 -m venv du3 ; cd du3
  export PYTHONPATH= ; . bin/activate
  
  pip install --no-deps docutils
  cp -Lr ../docutils-code/docutils/test .
  python test/alltests.py
  
  python2 -m virtualenv du2 ; cd du2
  export PYTHONPATH= ; . bin/activate
  
  pip install --no-deps docutils
  cp -Lr ../docutils-code/docutils/test .
  python test/alltests.py
  

• Notify to docutils-developer and user.

• upload source and generated html to sf-htdocs/0.##

  mkdir tmp1
  cd tmp1
  tar xzvf ../dist/docutils-0.##.tar.gz
  cd docutils-0.##/
  tools/buildhtml.py .
  find . -name \*.pyc -exec rm {} \;
  rm -rf docutils.egg-info
  rsync -e ssh -r -t ./ web.sourceforge.net:/home/project-web/docutils/htdocs/0.##
  

• Check web/index.txt for necessary corrections.

• Run sandbox/infrastructure/docutils-update.local to update web-content.

• Release to sourceforge.

  • Upload tar.gz and 0.16 release notes to sourceforge.
  • Select docutils-0.16.tar.gz as default for all OS.

• set_version 0.##+1b.dev

• test with py2 and py3

• docutils/HISTORY.txt: add title "Changes Since 0.##"

• run sandbox/infrastructure/docutils-update.local