Releasing a new version of khmer

This document is for khmer release managers, and details the process for making a new release of the khmer project.

How to make a khmer release candidate

Michael R. Crusoe, Luiz Irber, and C. Titus Brown have all been release makers, following this checklist by MRC.

  1. Announce a few days ahead of time that you will cut a release. This will slow down the rate at which PRs are being merged. When all outstanding PRs scheduled for this release have been merged, announce it. From now on no more merges to master. PRs to fix oversights or bugs follow the usual rule of “author can’t merge”. When you reach the end of this checklist announce it. Back to normal. If completing this checklist takes longer than a few hours consider allowing merges to master, and starting from the top with cutting a release.

  2. The below should be done in a clean checkout:

    cd `mktemp -d`
    git clone git@github.com:dib-lab/khmer.git
    cd khmer
    
  3. (Optional) Check for updates to versioneer:

    pip install --upgrade versioneer
    versioneer install
    git diff --staged
    
    git commit -m -a "new version of versioneer.py"
    # or
    git checkout -- versioneer.py khmer/_version.py khmer/__init__.py MANIFEST.in
    
  4. Review the git logs since the last release and diffs (if needed) and ensure that CHANGELOG.md is up to date (presumably peer code review has ensured that it is):

    git log --minimal --patch `git describe --tags --always --abbrev=0`..HEAD
    
  5. Review the issue list for any new bugs that will not be fixed in this release. Add them to doc/user/known-issues.rst

  6. Check for new authors (git log --format='%aN' v2.0... | sort -u lists all committers since the v2.0 tag). Update .mailmap to normalize their email address and name spelling. If they want to opt out update the list-* Makefile targets to exclude them. Run make list-citation and adapt the output to the relevant parts of CITATION, setup.py, doc/index.rst.

  7. Verify that the build is clean: https://api.travis-ci.org/dib-lab/khmer.svg?branch=master

  8. Set your new version number and release candidate:

    new_version=2.2
    rc=rc1
    

    and then tag the release candidate with the new version number prefixed by the letter ‘v’:

    git tag v${new_version}-${rc}
    git push --tags git@github.com:dib-lab/khmer.git
    
  9. Test the release candidate. Bonus: repeat on Mac OS X:

    cd ..
    virtualenv testenv1
    virtualenv testenv2
    virtualenv testenv3
    virtualenv testenv4
    
    
    # First we test the tag
    cd testenv1
    source bin/activate
    git clone --depth 1 --branch v${new_version}-${rc} https://github.com/dib-lab/khmer.git
    cd khmer
    make install-dependencies
    make test
    normalize-by-median.py --version 2>&1 \
        | grep khmer\ ${new_version}-${rc} \
        && echo 1st manual version check passed
    pip uninstall -y khmer; pip uninstall -y khmer; make install
    mkdir ../not-khmer # make sure py.test executes tests
                       # from the installed khmer module
    # you might want to add 'and not huge' to the test selection
    pushd ../not-khmer; pytest --pyargs khmer.tests -m 'not known_failing'; popd
    
    
    # Secondly we test via pip
    cd ../../testenv2
    source bin/activate
    pip install -U setuptools==3.4.1
    pip install -e git+https://github.com/dib-lab/khmer.git@v${new_version}-${rc}#egg=khmer
    cd src/khmer
    make install-dependencies
    make dist
    make test
    cp dist/khmer*tar.gz ../../../testenv3/
    pip uninstall -y khmer; pip uninstall -y khmer; make install
    cd ../.. # no subdir named khmer here, safe for testing installed khmer module
    normalize-by-median.py --version 2>&1 \
        | grep khmer\ ${new_version}-${rc} \
        && echo 2nd manual version check passed
    pytest --pyargs khmer.tests -m 'not known_failing'
    
    
    # Is the distribution in testenv2 complete enough to build another
    # functional distribution?
    cd ../testenv3/
    source bin/activate
    pip install -U setuptools==3.4.1
    pip install khmer*tar.gz
    pip install pytest
    tar xzf khmer*tar.gz
    cd khmer*
    make dist
    make test
    pip uninstall -y khmer; pip uninstall -y khmer; make install
    mkdir ../not-khmer
    pushd ../not-khmer ; pytest --pyargs khmer.tests -m 'not known_failing' ; popd
    
  10. Publish the new release on the testing PyPI server. You will need to change your PyPI credentials as documented here: https://wiki.python.org/moin/TestPyPI. You may need to re-register:

    python setup.py register --repository test
    

    Now, upload the new release:

    python setup.py sdist upload -r test
    

    Test the PyPI release in a new virtualenv:

    cd ../../testenv4
    source bin/activate
    pip install -U setuptools==3.4.1
    pip install screed pytest
    pip install -i https://testpypi.python.org/pypi --pre --no-clean khmer
    pytest --pyargs khmer.tests -m 'not known_failing'
    normalize-by-median.py --version 2>&1 \
        | grep khmer\ ${new_version}-${rc} \
        && echo 3rd manual version check passed
    cd build/khmer
    make test
    
  11. Do any final acceptance tests.

  12. Make sure any release notes are merged into doc/release-notes/.

How to make a final release

When you’ve got a thoroughly tested release candidate, cut a release like so:

  1. Create the final tag and publish the new release on PyPI (requires an authorized account).:

    cd ../../../khmer
    git tag v${new_version}
    python setup.py register sdist upload
    
  2. Delete the release candidate tag and push the tag updates to GitHub.:

    git tag -d v${new_version}-${rc}
    git push git@github.com:dib-lab/khmer.git
    git push --tags git@github.com:dib-lab/khmer.git
    
  3. Add the release on GitHub, using the tag you just pushed. Name it ‘version X.Y.Z’, and copy and paste in the release notes.

  4. Make a binary wheel on OS X.:

    virtualenv build
    cd build
    source bin/activate
    pip install -U setuptools==3.4.1 wheel
    pip install --no-clean khmer==${new_version}
    cd build/khmer
    ./setup.py bdist_wheel upload
    
  5. Update Read the Docs to point to the new version. Visit https://readthedocs.io/builds/khmer/ and ‘Build Version: master’ to pick up the new tag. Once that build has finished check the “Activate” box next to the new version at https://readthedocs.io/dashboard/khmer/versions/ under “Choose Active Versions”. Finally change the default version at https://readthedocs.io/dashboard/khmer/advanced/ to the new version.

  6. Delete any RC tags created:

    git tag -d ${new_version}-${rc}
    git push origin :refs/tags/${new_version}-${rc}
    
  7. Tweet about the new release.

  8. Send email including the release notes to khmer@lists.idyll.org and khmer-announce@lists.idyll.org

Setuptools Bootstrap

ez_setup.py is from https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/

Before major releases it should be examined to see if there are new versions available and if the change would be useful

Versioning Explanation

Versioneer, from https://github.com/warner/python-versioneer, is used to determine the version number and is called by Setuptools and Sphinx. See the files versioneer.py, the top of khmer/__init__.py, khmer/_version.py, setup.py, and doc/conf.py for the implementation.

The version number is determined through several methods: see https://github.com/warner/python-versioneer#version-identifiers

If the source tree is from a git checkout then the version number is derived by git describe --tags --dirty --always. This will be in the format ${tagVersion}-${commits_ahead}-${revision_id}-${isDirty}. Example: v0.6.1-18-g8a9e430-dirty

If from an unpacked tarball then the name of the directory is queried.

Lacking either of the two git-archive will record the version number at the top of khmer/_version.py via the $Format:%d$ and $Format:%H$ placeholders enabled by the “export-subst” entry in .gitattributes.

Non source distributions will have a customized khmer/_version.py that contains hard-coded version strings. (see build/*/khmer/_version.py after a python setup.py build for an example)

ez_setup.py bootstraps Setuptools (if needed) by downloading and installing an appropriate version

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