Sphinx: 3.0.0 release plan

[tk0miya]

According to annual release cycle, this April is time for major release.
I think this schedule is good for the release. What do you think?

• early March: call for translation
• early or mid of March: beta release (feature freeze)
• early April: final release

In addition, we need to make a new branch for managing 3.x series. I just post a proposal issue #7121. I'd like to make it after discussion ended (as soon as possible). Please give a comment for branch.

Note: issues marked as 3.0.0: https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/milestone/33

[tkoyama010]

Note: issues marked as 3.0.0: https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/milestone/33

@tk0miya Maybe https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/milestone/58 .

[tk0miya]

@tkoyama010 That's right. It is copy-pasted :-p

[tk0miya]

early March: call for translation

Today, I post a call for translation for sphinx-users and sphinx-dev group.

[tk0miya]

early or mid of March: beta release (feature freeze)

I'll bump a first beta release and call feature freeze in next weekend. Are you ready?

[tkoyama010]

I'm ready.

[jakobandersen]

I have some major changes to the C domain that would be nice to merge into 3.x. I plan on a PR within a day or two.

[tk0miya]

I also have some discussions still in progress (#7068 and #7301). It would be better to postpone a feature freeze for a week. We're not in a hurry.

[tk0miya]

In Japan, there is a hack-a-thon event for documentation. I'll work for this release. So I'll call feature freeze in a day.

I'll continue to work for #7068 and #7031. But their merge might be postponed to 3.0.0b2 or 3.1.0.

[tk0miya]

It seems almost issues and PRs on the 3.0 milestone are closed or merged. So I'm going to build a beta package from now on.

[tk0miya]

Now I just released Sphinx-3.0.0b1!!
https://pypi.org/project/Sphinx/3.0.0b1/

And I opened a branch 3.0.x for maintenance 3.0.0 final and following bug fix releases.

• master: mainly for 4.0.x release. All changes including breaking one are allowed.
• 3.x: for 3.1.0 release. Only stable changes are allowed.
• 3.0.x: for 3.0.0 release. Only bug fixes are allowed.

Thank you for your effort, always.

Best regards,

[tk0miya]

early April: final release

It seems there are no tasks on the 3.0.0 milestone. Are you alright to ship the 3.0.0 final?
I'll do it within a day if no objection.

[tk0miya]

done!
Thank you always!