0. Run full test suite in all branches and in master. Continue if all

tests passed.

1. Check out the release branch. If it is a stable release - edit

docs/News.rst to set release date. Commit.

2. If it's the first stable release of the branch - edit build-all-docs,

advance stable branch. Commit. If it's not master - merge to all higher

branches and master.

3. If release branch is not master - run ../prerelease $NEW_TAG; if it's

master - run ../prerelease $NEW_TAG master.

3a. The script checks out the release branch and calls editor; update

version, the list of contributors, the list of changes and download

URL in ANNOUNCE.rst; edit __version__.py and README.rst in the release

branch - fix versions. Edit section [egg_info] in setup.cfg - set if

it is a stable or development release. In setup.py edit "Development

Status" in trove classifiers; edit download URL: if a non-stable

version - append 'dev' and date stamp, for a stable version remove

'dev' and date stamp). Commit. Verify.

4. If it's not master - null-merge to the next higher branch.

5. If release branch is not master - run ../prerelease-tag $NEW_TAG; if

it's master - run ../prerelease-tag $NEW_TAG master. This checks out

the release branch and creates the new tag at the head of the release

branch.

6. Run ../release. This generates and uploads new archives to PyPI and

if it is a stable release - uploads archives and release announcement

(ANNOUNCE.rst) to SourceForge.

7. Hide/show old releases at PyPI and SourceForge.

8. Run ../push-all in the development repository to push all branches

and tags to the public repositories.

9. Run ../postrelease. The script restores ANNOUNCE.rst from the previous

commit (HEAD~). It calls editor; update next version, remove the list

of contributors and the list of changes, edit download URL in

ANNOUNCE.rst. Edit docs/News.rst - add new version.

10. Generate new docs using ./build-all-docs. Upload docs using

./publish-docs.

11. Send announcement to the SQLObject mailing list. For a stable

release send announcements to python, python-announce and python-db

mailing lists.

11. Announce new release(s) at Twitter (https://twitter.com/SQLObject) and

Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQLObject). If it is a stable

release - announce it at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_object-relational_mapping_software.