Maintenance information¶

Note

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

Zope 2.12+ release process¶

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

check the versions.cfg file for outdated or updated packages and update version information where necessary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
create the release specific download index on download.zope.org (requires login credentials on download.zope.org. In case of problems contact Jens Vagelpohl)
- login to download.zope.org
- change to user zope:
```
sudo su - zope
```
- create the download index (e.g. for Zope 2.12.2):
```
/var/zope/zope2index/bin/z2_kgs tags/2.12.2 /var/www/download.zope.org/Zope2/index/2.12.2
```
update the version tag for the autogenerated documentation of the releases notes for docs.zope.org:
```
svn propedit svn:externals svn+ssh://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zope2docs/trunk/releases
```
update version information on zope2.zope.org
- login on https://zope2.zope.org into the Plone site

close the released milestone (for example 2.12.7):

https://launchpad.net/zope2/+milestone/2.12.7/+addrelease

update the status of all bugs associated with the released milestone:
```
https://launchpad.net/zope2/+milestone/2.12.7
```
update launchpad. Create a new next milestone at:
```
https://launchpad.net/zope2/2.12/+addmilestone
```

update version information:
- setup.py
- inst/versions.py
- inst/WinBuilders/mk/zope.mk

run all tests:

./configure --with-python=/path/to/python2.4
make
bin/instance test

create a source release:

./configure --with-python=/path/to/python2.4
make sdist

create a software release package under www.zope.org/Products/Zope and upload the source release as release file
update the metadata of the release package (copy & paste from a former release)
create a file CHANGES.txt with the related release notes
send out a notification email