Release 0.15.0 checklist

Preparing the release

• Rerun all notebooks (pay special attention to new features)
• Review documentation, optionally improving the user guide or adding new notebooks showcasing new functionality
• Write the changelog and list of contributors
  • Commits since last release branch https://github.com/poliastro/poliastro/compare/0.14.0...master
  • Issues closed in this milestone https://github.com/poliastro/poliastro/milestone/16?closed=1 (note that there might be issues without milestone!)
  • Pull requests merged since last branching https://github.com/poliastro/poliastro/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged+merged%3A>%3D2020-05-02+sort%3Aupdated-asc

Before the beta release

• New branch
• Bump version to 0.15b1 in:
  • README.md
  • __init__.py
  • Sphinx conf.py
• Check that the release branch will be tested on CI
• Check all the badges in README point to the appropriate git branch (replace master by new branch sed -i 's/master/.../g' README.md)
• Check that docs badges and URLs point to appropriate tag (replace latest by new tag, without sed!)
• Commit
• Generate sdist and bdist_wheel with flit build
• twine upload dist/* --repository-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/
• Tag
• Bump master to next development version

Beta release

• Push branch to GitHub and tags
• Check on Test PyPI that the badges will work
• Upload sdist and bdist_wheel to PyPI - this step cannot be undone if the release is removed! twine upload dist/* --repository-url https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/
• Check Read the Docs

Before final release

• Backport any bugs
• Update release date in changelog
• Bump version to 0.15.0 in:
  • README.md
  • __init__.py
  • Sphinx conf.py
• Check that docs badges and URLs point to appropriate tag (replace v0.15b1 by v0.15.0)
• Commit
• Generate sdist and bdist_wheel
• twine upload dist/* --repository-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/
• Tag

Final release

• Push tag to GitHub
• Upload sdist and bdist_wheel to PyPI - this step cannot be undone if the release is removed! twine upload dist/* --repository-url https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/
• Check Read the Docs
• Create GitHub release
• Add Zenodo badge to GitHub release
• Send announcement email with subject “ANN: poliastro 0.15.0 released 🚀”
• Cherry pick release date to master
• Close milestone

[astrojuanlu]

Beta is released!

[astrojuanlu]

Released! Only announcements left.