Development tools: maintenance

Most of the development tools used internally by the OME project are Python-based and hosted on PyPI. Their source code is on GitHub.

Maintainer prerequisites

To be able to maintain a Python development tool, a developer must:

• have a GitHub account and have push rights to the GitHub source code repository

• have a valid PGP key for signing the tags

Release process

The first operation to perform while releasing a project is to create a signed tag locally:

$ cd <project>
$ git tag -s vx.y.z

The last command will create a tag with the default v prefix, i.e. vx.y.z.

Push the signed tag to the source code repository to trigger the upload to PyPI via GitHub action:

$ git push origin vx.y.z