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[Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 12, 2011, at 6:50 PM, Robert Collins wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 4:47 AM, Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> On Sep 9, 2011, at 4:49 PM, Robert Collins wrote:
>> 
>>> rabbitfixture is a lp team project, so it would be better to merge his
>>> branch do a release and update to the new release, than to run a
>>> side-branch of something we maintain :)
>>> 
>>> Perhaps thats what you meant, in which case, ignore me!
>> 
>> Yeah, I did everything except "make a release": I'm not sure what this means in this particular case.  In any case, yes, this is merged to trunk and we are using a local "release" of 0.3.1 from  that branch.
> 
> I would expect: ./setup.py sdist upload --signed
> and in lp make a 'release' and upload the files there as well. I
> believe sinzui has some automation around this, or you can use the
> stuff in lp-tools too.
> 
> (there is more claimed on https://dev.launchpad.net/ReleaseChecklist
> but it seems like overkill to me :) - I think we should simplify
> things as much as possible).

Not releasing a Python package on PyPI seems kinda like not releasing.  Maybe I'm the odd one out in that perception.

Gary