How to cut a toga-chart release¶

The release infrastructure for toga-chart is semi-automated, using GitHub Actions to formally publish releases.

This guide assumes that you have an upstream remote configured on your local clone of the toga-chart repository, pointing at the official repository. If all you have is a checkout of a personal fork of the toga-chart repository, you can configure that checkout by running:

$ git remote add upstream https://github.com/beeware/toga-chart.git

The procedure for cutting a new release is as follows:

Check the contents of the upstream repository’s main branch:
```
$ git fetch upstream
$ git checkout --detach upstream/main
```
Check that the HEAD of release now matches upstream/main.
Make sure the branch is ready for release. Ensure that:
1. The version number has been bumped.
2. The release notes are up to date. If they are, the changes directory should be empty, except for the template.rst file.
These two changes (the version bump and release notes update) should go through the normal pull request and review process. They should generally comprise the last PR merged before the release occurs.

If the version number hasn’t been updated, or changes directory isn’t empty, you need to create a PR (using the normal development process) that contains these changes. Run:
```
$ tox -e towncrier -- --draft
```
to review the release notes that will be included, and then:
```
$ tox -e towncrier
```
to generate the updated release notes. Submit the PR; once it’s been reviewed and merged, you can restart the release process from step 1.

Tag the release, and push the tag upstream:

$ git tag v1.2.3
$ git push upstream main
$ git push upstream v1.2.3

Pushing the tag will start a workflow to create a draft release on GitHub. You can follow the progress of the workflow on GitHub; once the workflow completes, there should be a new draft release.
Edit the GitHub release. Add release notes (you can use the text generated by towncrier). Check the pre-release checkbox (if necessary).
Double check everything, then click Publish. This will trigger a publication workflow on GitHub.

7. Wait for the package to appear on PyPI.

Congratulations, you’ve just published a release!

If anything went wrong during steps 3 or 5, you will need to delete the draft release from GitHub, and push an updated tag. Once the release has successfully appeared on PyPI, it cannot be changed; if you spot a problem in a published package, you’ll need to tag a completely new release.