genalog/RELEASE.md

Toucan Release Procedure

Checklist for the release process of genalog:

Preparation

• Ensure main branch contains all relevant changes and PRs relating to the specific release is merged
• Create and switch to a new release branch (i.e. release-X.Y.Z)

Package Metadata Update

• Update VERSION.txt with version bump. Please reference Semantic Versioning.
• Update CHANGELOG.md
• Commit the above changes with title "Release vX.Y.Z"
• Generate a new git tag for the new version (e.g. git tag -a v0.1.0 -m "Initial Release")
• Push the new tag to remote git push origin v0.1.0
• Create a new PR with the above changes into main branch.

Release to PyPI

• Manually trigger the release pipeline in DevOps on the release branch, this will publish latest version of genalog to PyPI.
  • Select releaseType to Test to test out the release in TestPyPI
  • Rerun and switch releaseType to production if looks good.
• If the pipeline ran successfully, check and publish the draft of this release on Github Release
• Latest version is pip-installable with:
  • pip install genalog

Update Documentation on Github Page

• Staying on the release branch, cd docs && pip install -r requirements-doc.txt
• Build the jupyter-book with jupyter-book build --all genalog_docs
• Preview the HTML files, if looks good publish to Github Page: ghp-import -n -p -f genalog_docs/_build/html