April (then May) 2020 Release Tracking Issue

[techalchemy]

This is an internal tracking issue which will tie in the related issues which will be tackled/still need to be updated for the purposes of cutting the release. It's been a long time coming (see #4058 (comment) and #3742 (comment) for some past comments on that) and there's a tentative goal of getting a pre-release out in March 2020.

(Edited by @brainwane to say: fixing some brokenness in the continuous integration setup is delaying this release 2020.04.1a1 till -- new estimate -- 21 April 2020.)

(Edited by @brainwane to say: the prerelease 2020.4.1b1 is now out, as of 29 April, and Dan aims to get the next release out in about a week.)

(Edited by @brainwane in conversation with Dan on 5 March 2020 and then throughout March & April)

• Other Items in the March 2020 release milestone:
  • Pipenv installs wrong packages (ignoring package lock) #3613 Pipenv installs wrong packages (ignoring package lock)
  • Change docs links to pipenv.pypa.io #4137 Update README and Read the Docs project to point to docs at pipenv.pypa.io
• Fix pip-shims test failures (merge the bugfix/56 branch)
• requirementslib fixes:
  • AST parsing of setup.py fails on non-addition type binOps sarugaku/requirementslib#204 requirementslib issue AST parsing of setup.py fails on non-addition type binOps
  • AST parsing fails on non-utf8 setup.py files sarugaku/requirementslib#205 AST parsing fails on non-utf8 setup.py files
  • We shouldn't install upgraded versions of test dependencies in CI sarugaku/requirementslib#214 We shouldn't install upgraded versions of test dependencies in CI
  • Add requirement calculator for artifacts in pypi sarugaku/requirementslib#219 calculator Add requirement calculator for artifacts in PyPI
  • Review requirements-lib issues for other pipenv release blockers
• Make new releases of related libraries:
  • requirementslib
  • pip-shims
  • pythonfinder
• Finish, approve and merge Update vendored dependencies, relevant API usage, and CI config #4169 to address missing dependencies/imports
  • Fix news entry/entries
  • Fix broken CI configuration
  • Get tests to pass
• Fix Your API Key is invalid #4188 by either getting pyup API key working again or choosing and implementing an alternative
• Get GitHub tests to pass on master (skipping the test mentioned in Debug test_install_markers for python 3.6 in github CI #4201)
• Improve release automation to allow generation of prereleases
  • Generate changelog in draft mode
  • Don't autotag & push tag to repo
• Update and run through "Test locally" and "Uploading the release" for packaging/release checklist
• Package and upload pipenv prerelease version 2020.04.1a1 to PyPI

That's what Dan aims to do by 21 April 2020. Then:

• Make another new release of requirementslib that incorporates a fix to parsing setup.cfg via setuptools is currently broken sarugaku/requirementslib#216
  • Relock requirementslib dependencies
• Publicize pre-release and ask for a week of testing
  • Especially testing on Windows against PEP 517 backends and involving virtualenvs
• After ~1 week (if no showstopper bugs), publish new release

How others can help:

• replying to new users' questions in pipenv's GitHub issues
• help develop a "Pipenv workflows to test" list, along these lines

[JBKahn]

This seems like a good place to ask about when the next release might be, what the blockers are and if there is anything someone can do to help?

[adawalli]

My team is anxious for the next update, specifically to address #3298. Are there major blockers still left?

[AlJohri]

linking #3742

[brainwane]

I noticed pypa/packaging.python.org#701 today and donated about 90 minutes of time helping @techalchemy get some more clarity on what's blocking him from making the new release (IRC conversation)). #3369 (comment) now has a release checklist. @techalchemy could use help with those release blockers, in case @JBKahn or anyone else wants to help out.