Release Checklist for Bitten

Review tasks

• Review milestone description, and make sure it is updated with important changes for the version.
  • Beta / release candidates are released under the main milestone and should be documented there (see milestone:0.6)
• There should be no open issues for main releases (open issues are OK for beta / release candidates that are work-in-progress snapshots)

Prepare source for release

Verify:

• Build docs with command: ./setup.py build_doc
• Run unittests on all major platforms
• Test build a few packages / eggs. Make sure that Bitten distributions are quite a bit larger than those from BittenSlave.

Make and commit changes:

• Update version in setup.py
• Drop [egg_info] section setup.cfg
• Update ChangeLog with release information and changes - make changes in trunk and merge to stable branch
• Before first major releases:
  • svn copy trunk -> /branches/<major>.x

Tag release

• svn copy /branches/<major>.x -> /tags/<major>.<minor><beta?>
• Commit message should contain a link to [milestone:<major><minor>].

Adjust source trees

Make and commit changes:

• Reset version information in setup.py to new next version + add back [egg_info] section
• Add new empty section in ChangeLog for coming version

Make releases

• Checkout/export the freshly tagged code and use it to make releases.
• Build docs (./setup.py build_doc and open doc/index.html in a browser to verify result).
• Build and upload installers to FTP site in following formats and versions - for both 'Bitten' and 'Bitten-Slave'
  (Note: run ./setup.py clean and remove build diretory whenever changing architecture or distribution):
  • .tar.gz (sdist *nix) and .zip (sdist Windows)
  • py27.egg (bdist_egg using any Python)
  • py26.egg (bdist_egg using any Python)
  • py25.egg (bdist_egg using any Python)
  • py24.egg (bdist_egg using any Python)
  • amd64.exe (bdist_wininst using 64-bit Windows Python)
  • .exe (bdist_wininst using 32-bit Windows Python)
• Run update-latest.sh script in FTP directory to make 'latest' links and md5 checksums (also make a similar script for Bitten-Slave when that is ready)
• Update wiki:Download page with new links

Announce

• Write an email to bitten mailing list.

Admin

• Final markers on milestone, and close milestone if it is a main release.
• Update Milestone admin to set a new default milestone if that needs changing.
• Add a 'Version' so that new tickets can be classified to use the new release.

Questions…

• What about PYPI? Entries for both Bitten and Bitten-Slave?