Updating the ZTK itself

Updating versions of dependencies

Manual way

To get new version pins into ZTK run the following steps:

• tox -e checkversions | grep "="

  This command lists the packages where newer versions are available. (The grep is needed to omit the other rubbish rendered by the command call.)

• Update ztk-versions.cfg with these new versions and run tox to run their tests.

• Run the checkversion call from above again to make sure all possible versions are updated.

• If the test runs are successful: create a pull request on GitHub.

Automated way

• There is a dependabot configuration automatically updating dependabot/requirements.txt.

• And there is a GitHub actions job syncing between dependabot/requirements.txt and ztk-versions.cfg.

Creating a release

• Make sure all tests are running successfully.

• Decide on a version number for the new release, taking https://semver.org/ into account. (Please note: dropping support for a Python version is considered a major change as it enforces changes for users of ZTK who are using the no longer supported Python version.)

• Create a change log page in docs/releases with the name of your release number and describe the most important changes in the new release.

  • Mention that the buildout versions file can be found at https://zopefoundation.github.io/zopetoolkit/.

• Add the name of the file to doc/releases/index.rst.

• Check the documentation builds using tox -e docs and proof-read your changes.

• Commit your newly added file and the changes via git.

• Create a git tag using git tag and your version number.

• Push your changes, make sure also the tag is pushed.

• Switch to the branch gh-pages.

• Run build_indexes.sh, add and commit the changes.

• Push the changes to GitHub, after some minutes the changes should appear at https://zopefoundation.github.io/zopetoolkit/.

• Create a new release on https://github.com/zopefoundation/zopetoolkit/releases

Setup for Dependabot auto-update

• You need a personal access token of one of the zopefoundation admins. (Currently one of icemac is used.)

• To create the token go to https://github.com/settings/apps -> Fine-grained personal access tokens:

  • Repository access: zopefoundation/zopetoolkit

  • Repository permissions: Read and Write access for Contents

  • Save the token in your clipboard.

• Enter the token at:

  • Actions secrets: https://github.com/zopefoundation/zopetoolkit/settings/secrets/actions -> Repository secrets -> COMMIT_ACTIONS_TOKEN

  • Dependabot secrets: https://github.com/zopefoundation/zopetoolkit/settings/secrets/dependabot -> Repository secrets -> COMMIT_ACTIONS_TOKEN