# Docutils Release Procedure

Authors: | David Goodger Lea Wiemann open to all Docutils developers
Contact: | docutils-develop@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: | 2013-07-13
Revision: | 7686
Copyright: | This document has been placed in the public domain.

# Assumptions and their failure

On the test machine python2.4, 2.5 2.6 2.7 and 3.2 are installed. Some in /usr/ some under /usr/local.

Assumption: If python2.6 is in /usr/bin/ than site-packages is under
  /usr/local/lib/python2.6.

On new ubuntu 12.10

- python2.7 is here /usr/bin/python2.7.

- in /usr/lib are python2.7, pymodules and pyshared.

  in /usr/lib/python2.7 no site-packages directory even after installation of docutils

  in /usr/local/lib/python2.7 are dist-packages site-packages.

  site-packages is empty.

  docutils is installed under dist-packages.

  pymodules has a python2.7 directory.

# Releasing

REWORK FOR SOURCEFORGE REPO

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.

Note

You may want to use ReleaseForge instead of using SourceForge's file release system.

- On the Docutils-develop mailing list, announce that the release is going to be made, update the release notes and ask for additions.

  Consult HISTORY.TXT for changes.

- Announce a check-in freeze on Docutils-develop.

Call `sandbox/infrastructure/release.sh new_version svn_version`. For details see the script.

`new_version` is the current version, status will change from `repository` to `release`. `svn_version` is the version after release.

Note

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

- Change `__version_details__` in docutils/docutils/__init__.py to "release" (from "repository").

- Check the version number in the following files, should be already correct:

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

- 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.berlios.de/docutils/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`).

  Set the download-url so eggs can access older releases.

- Restore `__version_details__` in docutils/docutils/__init__.py to "repository" (from "release").

- Bump the version number again.

- Add a new empty section "Changes Since ..." in HISTORY.txt.

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

- Run docutils-update on the server.

- 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" and containing the release tarball's download URL.

  Mark as default download for all platforms.

- Register with freecode. Add a new release for the Docutils project. (freecode is freshmeat.net's new name)