toot/docs/release.md

Release procedure

This document is a checklist for creating a toot release.

Currently the process is pretty manual and would benefit from automatization.

Bump & tag version

• Update the version number in setup.py
• Update the version number in toot/__init__.py
• Update changelog.yaml with the release notes & date
• Run make changelog to generate a human readable changelog
• Commit the changes
• Run ./scripts/tag_version <version> to tag a release in git
• Run git push --follow-tags to upload changes and tag to GitHub

Publishing to PyPI

• make dist to create source and wheel distributions
• make publish to push them to PyPI

GitHub release

• Create a release for the newly pushed tag, paste changelog since last tag in the description
• Upload the assets generated in previous two steps to the release:
  • source dist (.zip and .tar.gz)
  • wheel distribution (.whl)

TODO: this can be automated: https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/releases/

Update documentation

To regenerate HTML docs and deploy to toot.bezdomni.net:

make docs-deploy