[Twisted-Python] Upcoming Twisted Release

[Adi Roiban]

Hi,

So, speaking for myself here and not representing the Twisted community or
anyone else.

I think that the consensus inside the Twisted contributors is that we
should have a new  release ASAP.

The current release is blocked by the following issues:

* A release blocker bug - https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/10069
* A release process protocol / procedure / communication

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For the blocker bug, there were 2 PR there were closed

* https://github.com/twisted/twisted/pull/1499
* https://github.com/twisted/twisted/pull/1501

There is one PR still in work https://github.com/twisted/twisted/pull/1502

We can wait one more week to see if this issue can be fixed and unblock the
release in this way.

Otherwise, we can revert the change that introduced the regression and have
the release unblocked.

Note that reverting a merge that introduced a regression as soon as the
regression is detected, is the current best practice.
The revert was not done as there was hope that this can be fixed.

With the release unblock Craig or I or someone else can create the release
branch and push the release candidate to PYPI.

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For the release procedure / communication

The release documentation and the process to publish the wheels to PyPI was
updated with the goal of making it easier for the current release
to happen.
You just create a tag and you have the documentation and PyPI wheels
already published.

You can still manually create the wheels and publish them with twine

If anyone thinks that the current changes that were made for automatic Docs
(narrative and API) and wheel publishing are a regression,
they can be reverted at any time, and we can merge them after the release.

The ad-hoc / informal Twisted dev communication happens over IRC Freenode
#twisted-dev

It would be nice if we can have all active developers there for quick
feedback and brainstorming.

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Have I forgotten anything?

I hope that in 2 weeks we can have a release candidate and by the end of
February a final release.

Cheers


On Sat, 16 Jan 2021 at 02:56, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at crodrigues.org>
wrote:

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> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 10:42 AM Glyph <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
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>> Following up on this, since we are now officially past the "beginning" of
>> January: Craig, is a release imminent or can someone else pick up some
>> tasks yet?
>>
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> I'm close to getting this done, and want to complete this.
>
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