# Release process

* Ensure you have a backup of all working files and then remove files not tracked by git
  `git clean -xdf`. **NOTE**: this will delete all files in the tuf tree that aren't
  tracked by git
* Ensure `docs/CHANGELOG.md` contains a one-line summary of each [notable
  change](https://keepachangelog.com/) since the prior release
* Update `setup.py` and `tuf/__init__.py` to the new version number vA.B.C
* Test packaging, uploading to Test PyPI and installing from a virtual environment
  (ensure commands invoking `python` below are using Python 3)
  * Remove existing dist build dirs
  * Create source dist `python3 setup.py sdist`
  * Create wheel (with 2 and 3 support) `python3 setup.py bdist_wheel --universal`
  * Sign the dists `gpg --detach-sign -a dist/tuf-vA.B.C.tar.gz`
  * Upload to test PyPI `twine upload --repository testpypi dist/*`
  * Verify the uploaded package https://testpypi.python.org/pypi/tuf/
* Create a PR with updated `CHANGELOG.md` and version bumps
* Once the PR is merged, pull the updated `develop` branch locally
* Create a signed tag matching the updated version number on the merge commit
  `git tag --sign vA.B.C -m "vA.B.C"`
  * Push the tag to GitHub `git push origin vA.B.C`
* Create a new release on GitHub, copying the `CHANGELOG.md` entries for the
  release
* Create a package for the formal release
  (ensure commands invoking `python` below are using Python 3)
  * Remove existing dist build dirs
  * Create source dist `python3 setup.py sdist`
  * Create wheel (with 2 and 3 support) `python3 setup.py bdist_wheel --universal`
  * Sign source dist `gpg --detach-sign -a dist/tuf-vA.B.C.tar.gz`
  * Sign wheel `gpg --detach-sign -a dist/tuf-vA.B.C-py2.py3-none-any.whl`
  * Upload to test PyPI `twine upload --repository testpypi dist/*`
  * Verify the uploaded package https://testpypi.python.org/pypi/tuf/
  * Upload to PyPI `twine upload dist/*`
* Attach the signed dists to the release on GitHub
* Announce the release on [#tuf on CNCF Slack](https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/C8NMD3QJ3)
* Ensure [POUF 1](https://github.com/theupdateframework/taps/blob/master/POUFs/reference-POUF/pouf1.md), for the reference implementation, is up-to-date