# Docutils Release Procedure

Authors: | David Goodger Lea Wiemann open to all Docutils developers
Contact: | docutils-develop@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: | 2019-12-12
Revision: | 8436
Copyright: | This document has been placed in the public domain.

# Releasing

## Version identifier

For details, see Version Numbering in Docutils Project Policies.

### How to change the version identifier

The version identifier `docutils.__version__` is defined in `docutils/docutils/__init__.py` and used in in the following files:

    docutils/setup.py
    docutils/test/functional/expected/* ("Generator: Docutils X.Y[.Z]")
    docutils/README.txt
    web/index.txt

You can use the script `set_version.sh` to change the version identifier:

1. `cd` to the "docutils" subdirectory in the repository checkout,

2. call

       ../sandbox/infrastructure/set_release.sh <new_version>

   where `<new_version>` is major.minor[.micro][<pre>][.dev].

   This also changes `__version_info__` in `docutils/docutils/__init__.py`.

Run the test suite after changing the codebase version to ensure accuracy and consistency.

## Release steps

REWORK FOR SOURCEFORGE REPO

Warning

Steps in boldface text are not covered by the release script at sandbox/infrastructure/release.sh. "Not covered" means that you aren't even reminded of them.

Note

This document does not cover branching and tagging, but the release script does.

- Announce

  On the Docutils-develop mailing list, announce that the release is going to be made, update the release notes (consult HISTORY.TXT for important changes) and ask for additions.

  Announce the upcoming release at the Sphinx-devel mailing list and ask for testing with Sphinx. (This step can be skipped for bugfix releases and pre-releases.)

  Announce the date of the feature freeze – at least a week ahead!

- Feature freeze From now on, only bug-fix commits are allowed.

  Update the pre-release segment of the version identifier (`b`, `rcN` or empty) to match the level of the upcoming release (beta, candidate or final). Ensure `docutils.__version_info__` matches the version identifier. (See also How to change the version identifier.)

- Announce the check-in freeze date on Docutils-develop – at least a week ahead.

- Check-in freeze

  for example it was 0.14b.dev and is changed to 0.15

  Update the version identifier: Remove the development release segment (`.dev`) from the version identifier and set `docutils.__version_info__.release` to True.

  Check the version identifier in the following files (should be already correct if set according to How to change the version identifier):

  - docutils/setup.py
  - docutils/docutils/__init__.py
  - docutils/test/functional/expected/* ("Generator: Docutils X.Y[.Z]")
  - docutils/README.txt
  - web/index.txt

- See what `sandbox/infrastructure/release.sh` can aid

  Note

  BUG test tarball requires root password, but it is possible to skip this stage interactively, and testing should be done before release.

- Close the "Changes Since ..." section in docutils/HISTORY.txt.

- Clear/unset the PYTHONPATH environment variable.

- Create the release tarball:

  1. Create a new empty directory and `cd` into it.

  2. Get a clean snapshot of the main tree:

         svn export svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/docutils/code/trunk/docutils

     or via the [Download Snapshot] button at http://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/docutils/

  3. Use Distutils to create the release tarball:

         cd docutils
         python setup.py sdist

- Expand and install the release tarball in isolation:

  1. Expand the tarball in a new location, not over any existing files.

  2. Remove the old installation from site-packages (including roman.py, and optparse.py, textwrap.py).

     "remove" might fail, see Assumptions and their failure

     Install from expanded directory:

         cd docutils-X.Y.Z
         python setup.py install

     The "install" command may require root permissions.

  3. Repeat step b) for all supported Python versions.

- Run the test suite from the expanded archive directory with all supported Python versions on all available platforms (GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows):

      cd test ; python -u alltests.py

- Add a directory X.Y.Z (where X.Y.Z is the current version number of Docutils) in the webroot (i.e. the `htdocs/` directory). Put all documentation files into it:

      cd docutils-X.Y.Z
      rm -rf build
      cd tools/
      ./buildhtml.py ..
      cd ..
      find -name test -type d -prune -o -name \*.css -print0 \
          -o -name \*.html -print0 -o -name \*.txt -print0 \
          | tar -cjvf docutils-docs.tar.bz2 -T - --null
      scp docutils-docs.tar.bz2 <username>@shell.sourceforge.net:

  Now log in to shell.sourceforge.net and:

      cd /home/groups/d/do/docutils/htdocs/
      mkdir -m g+rwxs X.Y.Z
      cd X.Y.Z
      tar -xjvf ~/docutils-docs.tar.bz2
      rm ~/docutils-docs.tar.bz2

- Upload the release tarball, release.sh tries with scp.

- Access the file release system on SourceForge (Admin interface).

  `https://sourceforge.net/projects/docutils/files/docutils/`

  - change into the released version's directory
  - click `(i)` button of the tar.gz-file
  - select as default download for all operating systems.

- Submit a notification on project news.

- For verifying the integrity of the release, download the release tarball (you may need to wait up to 30 minutes), install it, and re-run the test suite.

- Register with PyPI (`python setup.py register`).

  (2019-07-21 still ?) Set the download-url so eggs can access older releases.

- build wheels:

      python setup.py bdist_wheel

  This builds wheels by downloading the new release from pypi.

  Upload the wheels to PyPI:

      twine upload dist/*

- Lift the freeze

  Set the version identifier and `__version_info__.releaselevel` in docutils/docutils/__init__.py to mark the repository version as "in development", usually `<major>.<minor+1>b.dev` (cf. How to change the version identifier).

- After a final release, add a new empty section "Changes Since ..." in HISTORY.txt.

- Update the web page (web/index.txt):

      cd sandbox/infrastructure/
      ./docutils-update.local

  Running on sf-server no longer works.

- set svn version e.g. 0.16b.dev

- Run alltests.py with svn version

- Send announcement email to:

  - docutils-develop@lists.sourceforge.net (also announcing the end of the check-in freeze)
  - docutils-users@lists.sourceforge.net
  - doc-sig@python.org
  - python-announce@python.org

- Add a SourceForge News item, with title "Docutils X.Y.Z released"

  Mark as default download for all platforms.