How to make a release
During development
imdb.version
Be sure that the
__version__
variable is up-to-date.
CHANGELOG.txt
When a major fix or feature is committed, the changelog must be updated.
When a new release is planned
CHANGELOG.txt
The date of the release has to be added.
How to release
Commit the above changes.
Add an annotated tag like year.month.day; e.g.:
git tag -a 2020.09.25
(the commit message is not important).python3 setup.py sdist
python3 setup.py bdist_wheel
git push
git push --tags
Don’t forget to push both sources and tags to both the GitHub and Bitbucket repositories (they are kept in sync).
Upload to pypi:
twine upload dist/cinemagoer-*
(you probably need a recent version of twine and the appropriate ~/.pypi file)The new tar.gz must also be uploaded to https://sourceforge.net/projects/imdbpy/ (along with a new “news”).
Create a new release on GitHub, including the changelog and the whl and tar.gz files. https://github.com/cinemagoer/cinemagoer/releases/new
communication
update the content/news section of https://github.com/cinemagoer/website
add a news on https://sourceforge.net/p/imdbpy/news/new
send an email to imdbpy-devel@lists.sourceforge.net and imdbpy-help@lists.sourceforge.net
After the release
CHANGELOG.txt
Add a new section for the next release, on top.
After that, you can commit the above changes with a message like “version bump”