4.3.0 release plan

[tk0miya]

Hi maintainers,

About 2months has passed since the last stable release. Based on our release cycle, I'll ship a new package 4.3.0 in nearly days. Do you have any concerns?

• Initially, the release was planned in this weekend. But I did not have time to work for the release and could not post this release plan this week. So I'd like to postpone it for a few days.

Note: issues marked as 4.3.0:
https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/milestone/114

[jmckenna]

sounds good, thanks @tk0miya-san

[jakobandersen]

No concerns from my side.

[shimizukawa]

LGTM!

[jakobandersen]

No concerns from my side.

Well, that didn't last long: a variation of #9833 should probably go into 4.x before release.

[tk0miya]

I will ship a new version after #9833 will be merged. Maybe within 24 hours.

[tk0miya]

Just released! Thank you for all your work!

[jmckenna]

@tk0miya for your release steps, can you also add:

• generate a release here on GitHub (this way all of those 'following' this repository are automatically notified of the release)
• for example, see: https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/releases/tag/rel-7-6-4
• specifically:
  • go here and click the button "Draft a new release"

thanks!

[tk0miya]

@jmckenna Could you explain (or give me a pointer) the advantage of the GitHub releases? TBH, I'd not like to increase tasks on releasing...

[hugovk]

One advantage is people can watch repos for releases only, so they'll get a notification when there's a new release:

It doesn't ping for new tags.

I don't have experience myself, but there are some GitHub Actions out there to automatically create a release for tags.

[tk0miya]

It would be nice if GHA automatically generates a release on tagging :-)

[tk0miya]

Note: https://github.com/actions/create-release

[tk0miya]

It's helpful if somebody posts a PR :-)

[jmckenna]

@tk0miya if you click that button that I said earlier, a new tag is auto-generated for the release, and the archives are auto-generated for the release, all you have to do is paste the text: "Sphinx 4.3.0 release is now available, as a bug-fix release. Please see the changelog at https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/changes.html Thank-you to the whole community." <--and the 130+ "watchers" for this repository are auto-magically notified.

[hugovk]

Please see PR #9842.

https://github.com/actions/create-release is archived, so of the ones linked from there, this uses the one with the most stars: https://github.com/softprops/action-gh-release

[tk0miya]

I merged #9842 now. Please wait for the next release.