notebook/RELEASE.md

Making a Release of Notebook

Start from a fresh git checkout and conda environment

Set the release branch

export release_branch=master

Create the git checkout

git clone git@github.com:jupyter/notebook.git
cd notebook
git checkout ${release_banch}

Create and activate the conda environment

conda create -n notebook-release -c conda-forge jupyter
conda activate notebook-release

Perform a local dev install

pip install -ve .

Install release dependencies

conda install -c conda-forge nodejs babel twine
npm install -g po2json

Update the version

vim notebook/_version.py
python setup.py jsversion
git commit -am "Release $(python setup.py --version)"
git tag $(python setup.py --version)

Create the artifacts

rm -rf dist
python setup.py sdist
python setup.py bdist_wheel

Upload the artifacts

twine check dist/* && twine upload dist/*

Change back to dev version

vim notebook/_version.py   # Add the .dev suffix
python setup.py jsversion
git commit -am "Back to dev version"

Push the commits and tags

git push origin ${release_branch} --tags