Maintainer information

注釈

This is internal documentation, mostly for Zope maintainers who manage software releases and the documentation

Release process

Maintainers

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

  • Hanno Schlichting

  • Michael Howitz

  • Tres Seaver

  • Jens Vagelpohl

Steps for creating a new Zope release

  • Make sure you have the necessary tools around and install them manually if needed:

    $ bin/pip install -U wheel tox twine
    
  • Create releases for the packages mentioned in buildout.cfg below auto-checkout enter them into versions-prod.cfg and run bin/buildout to update requirements-full.txt.

  • Garden the change log and check it for spelling issues. Look at the changes for this new release and decide on the version number. Features should trigger a feature release.

  • Check the future PyPI long description for ReST errors:

    $ cat README.rst <(echo) CHANGES.rst | bin/rst2html >/tmp/test.html && open /tmp/test.html
    
  • Update version information in change log and pyproject.toml and specify today’s date as release date in the change log:

    $ bin/prerelease  # if you use zest.releaser
    
    or
    
    $ vim CHANGES.rst pyproject.toml
    
  • Pin the Zope version in versions-prod.cfg.

  • Run bin/buildout to update requirements-full.txt.

  • Run all tests:

    $ bin/tox -pall
    
  • If the tests succeed, commit the changes.

  • Create and push the release tag. This will trigger the publishing workflow on GitHub:

    $ git tag -as <TAG-NAME> -m "- tagging release <TAG-NAME>"
    $ git push --tags
    
  • Update version information in the change log and pyproject.toml:

    $ bin/postrelease  # if you use zest.releaser
    
    or
    
    $ vim CHANGES.rst pyproject.toml
    
  • Remove the version pin for Zope:

    $ vim versions-prod.cfg (remove Zope pin)
    $ bin/buildout
    
  • Commit and push the changes.

  • Check that the package publishing workflow has succeeded at https://github.com/zopefoundation/Zope/actions and https://pypi.org/project/Zope/#history

  • Check that the changes have been propagated to https://zope.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changes.html. (This should be done automatically via web hooks defined in GitHub and RTD.)

  • Update https://zopefoundation.github.io/Zope/:

    $ git checkout gh-pages
    $ python3 build_index.py
    
  • Add the newly created files and commit and push the changes.

  • Check on https://zopefoundation.github.io/Zope/ for the new release.

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

    $ bin/versioncheck -pn versions.cfg
    

    or to open a nicely-formatted web page instead:

    $ bin/versioncheck -pnb versions.cfg >/tmp/test.html && open /tmp/test.html
    

    When done, run the buildout again to regenerate requirements/constraints:

    $ bin/buildout
    

注釈

This step is done after the release to have time to fix problems which might get introduced by new versions of the dependencies.

There are no version pins in the buildout configuration for packages that are directly installed into the virtual environment before zc.buildout is run, such as pip, wheel, setuptools and zc.buildout. These will show as unpinned, which is OK.

There is no version pin for zc.recipe.egg in versions-prod.cfg as it is only needed for buildout install and not for pip, so we do not want to have it in requirements.txt.

Maintaining the Zope documentation

Contributing to the documentation

Any signed Zope contributor may contribute to the Sphinx-based documentation in the docs subfolder, including The Zope Book and the Zope Developer's guide.

Just like with code contributions, please follow best practice. Test your changes locally before creating a pull request or pushing to the repository. Use a reasonable line length (<80).

Building the documentation

After you have bootstrapped and run the buildout, you can build the documentation using the script bin/tox -edocs to create the documentation HTML output. The script will tell you where it saves the output.

The official documentation site on Read the Docs

Pushes to the Zope repository on GitHub will automatically trigger an automatic documentation refresh on the official documentation site at https://zope.readthedocs.io. This is true for the master branch, but also for versions 2.12 and 2.13. The trigger is implemented as a GitHub Webhook, see Settings | Webhooks in the GitHub repository.

The RTD configuration at https://readthedocs.org/projects/zope/ is currently maintained by the following people:

  • Hanno Schlichting

  • Michael Howitz

  • Tres Seaver

  • Jens Vagelpohl

Maintaining Zope documentation translations

The Sphinx documentation has some translations now. Adding new translations or maintaining existing ones is done in several steps. The following is mostly taken from https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/advanced/intl.html.

Adding a new document translation

If you are just working on an existing .po file you can skip these steps.

  • Create the .pot files that form the basis for all translations:

    $ cd docs
    $ make gettext
    
  • Copy the .pot file for the new document to the correct language folder, the following example uses ja for the Japanese translation. If the folder does not exist yet, just create it:

    $ mkdir -p locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES
    $ cp _build/gettext/maintenance.pot locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/maintenance.po
    

Now continue with the steps in the next section.

Maintaining existing translations

Start here if the translation .po file already exists. This example uses a file maintenance.po from the Japanese translation:

  • At the top of the .po file, enter your name and optionally email address into the field Last-Translator:

    $ cd docs
    $ vim locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/maintenance.po
    
  • Enter translated strings into the various msgstr fields

  • Build the translated HTML pages from the docs folder:

    $ make -e SPHINXOPTS="-D language='ja'" html
    
  • When you are happy with the result, commit the changes to the repository:

    $ git commit locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/maintenance.po
    

    注釈

    Please do not add any .po files to the repository that have no translations. Those will not do anything but increase the size of the released package.