Babel Release Engineering

Steps to take before a release

• Install the latest version of ​pytz.
• Empty the setup.cfg file to make sure it will not create a development snapshot.
• Within the setup.py file, make sure the version number is changed to the current one.
• Check and update Changelog as necessary with all the relevant changes.

Steps to take to create a release

• python scripts/import_cldr.py /path/to/appropriate/cldr/directory
• For every Python version do: pythonX.X setup.py bdist_egg
• Generate documentation for inclusion with the source tarball: python setup.py build_doc
• Create a source tarball: python setup.py sdist
• Create a Windows installer (on Windows with a 32-bit Python): python setup.py bdist_wininst
• Create a source zip file (on Windows with a 32-bit Python): python setup.py sdist --format=zip

Post-release Trac work

• close milestone
• create milestone for next minor release
• add released version to Trac versions, set this as default