Maintenance information

Note

This is internal documentation for Zope 2 developers having to create official Zope 2 releases

Zope 2.12+ release process

Maintainers

The following persons have access to the Zope2 package on PyPI (in order to release new versions):

• Hanno Schlichting

Steps for creating a new Zope 2 release

• check the versions.cfg file for outdated or updated packages and update version information where necessary

• update version information:

  • setup.py
  • versions.cfg

• update docs/CHANGES.rst

• run all tests:

  bin/alltests
  

• tag the release

• upload the tagged release to PyPI:

  python2.7 setup.py egg_info -RDb '' sdist --formats=zip register upload

• check the visible releases on readthedocs.org at (should default to showing the active branches):

  https://readthedocs.org/dashboard/zope/versions/

• update version information on zope2.zope.org

  • login on https://zope2.zope.org into the Plone site

• close the released milestone:

  https://launchpad.net/zope2/+milestone/2.13.15/+addrelease

• update the status of all bugs associated with the released milestone:

  https://launchpad.net/zope2/+milestone/2.13.15

• update launchpad. Create a new next milestone at:

  https://launchpad.net/zope2/2.13/+addmilestone