Attention
This is copied verbatim from the old IPython wiki and is currently under development. Much of the information in this part of the development guide is out of date.
This document contains notes about the process that is used to release IPython. Our release process is currently not very formal and could be improved.
Most of the release process is automated by the release script in the tools directory of our main repository. This document is just a handy reminder for the release manager.
release
tools
You can set some env variables to note previous release tag and current release milestone, version, and git tag:
PREV_RELEASE=rel-1.0.0 MILESTONE=1.1 VERSION=1.1.0 TAG="rel-$VERSION" BRANCH=master
These will be used later if you want to copy/paste, or you can just type the appropriate command when the time comes. These variables are not used by scripts (hence no export).
export
If a major release:
merge any pull request notes into what’s new:
python tools/update_whatsnew.py
update docs/source/whatsnew/development.rst, to ensure it covers the major points.
docs/source/whatsnew/development.rst
move the contents of development.rst to versionX.rst
development.rst
versionX.rst
generate summary of GitHub contributions, which can be done with:
python tools/github_stats.py --milestone $MILESTONE > stats.rst
which may need some manual cleanup. Add the cleaned up result and add it to docs/source/whatsnew/github-stats-X.rst (make a new file, or add it to the top, depending on whether it is a major release). You can use:
docs/source/whatsnew/github-stats-X.rst
git log --format="%aN <%aE>" $PREV_RELEASE... | sort -u -f
to find duplicates and update .mailmap. Before generating the GitHub stats, verify that all closed issues and pull requests have appropriate milestones. This search should return no results.
.mailmap
tools/build_release
This does all the file checking and building that the real release script will do. This will let you do test installations, check that the build procedure runs OK, etc. You may want to also do a test build of the docs.
Edit IPython/core/release.py to have the current version.
IPython/core/release.py
Commit the changes to release.py and jsversion:
git commit -am "release $VERSION" git push origin $BRANCH
Create and push the tag:
git tag -am "release $VERSION" "$TAG" git push origin --tags
Update release.py back to x.y-dev or x.y-maint, and push:
x.y-dev
x.y-maint
git commit -am "back to development" git push origin $BRANCH
cd /tmp git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ipython/ipython.git -b "$TAG"
cd tools && ./release
This makes the tarballs, zipfiles, and wheels. It posts them to archive.ipython.org and registers the release with PyPI.
This will require that you have current wheel, Python 3.4 and Python 2.7.
release announcement (news, announcements)
update current version and download links
(If major release) update links on the documentation page
This should include i) highlights and ii) a link to the html version of the What’s new section of the documentation.
Post to mailing list, and link from Twitter.
close the milestone you just released
open new milestone for (x, y+1), if it doesn’t exist already