0.15.0 Release Plan

[jorisroovers]

I just released 0.14.0 🎉 Thanks again to everyone contributing!

For 0.15.0 I want to try something new by creating this release plan issue to track any related discussion and work.

Note: While I'll do my best to stick to whatever is mentioned in here, I want to emphasize that everything discussed in this issue is subject to sudden change at my sole discretion, no promises or hard commitments :-)

Scope

0.15.0 will be focussed on upgrading dependencies, dropping support for Python 2.7 and Python 3.5 and maybe some minor documentation and test/tool tweaks. No user-facing changes are planned for 0.15.0: it will be functionally identical to 0.14.0.

All related issues will be tagged with the 0.15.0 Milestone.

One thing I am debating is whether to just call it 1.0 instead of 0.15.0. Dropping support for Python 2.7 can be argued to be breaking change, and gitlint is stable and feature-rich enough to warrant the 1.0 tag at this point (although that's a fairly arbitrary distinction).

Timeline

As always, no specific timeline, but before the end of 2020 is my personal goal.

[sigmavirus24]

0.x releases are allowed breaking changes by most definitions of "Semantic Versioning" so if you'd rather leave it at 0.15, go for it

[neiljp]

Do you expect to unpin the click dependency in 0.15?

[jorisroovers]

@neiljp Not as of now, please see #133 and #162 (and comment there if you wish), unless I can find a way to avoid fire-fighting on my end. I will be updating all dependencies to the latest versions though.

[jorisroovers]

The 0.15.0 release is feature complete at this point. I've got an unmerged branch with documentation tweaks that might get a few more changes before I merge it, but it should be very close. I'm hoping to cut and push the release over the next week (maybe two).

[jorisroovers]

Released 0.15.0 🎉

• CHANGELOG: https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/blob/v0.15.0/CHANGELOG.md
• Github Release: https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/releases/tag/v0.15.0
• Pypi: https://pypi.org/project/gitlint/0.15.0/
• Dockerhub: https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/jorisroovers/gitlint

@harens if you have some time, appreciate if you can update homebrew and macports - no pressure!

[harens]

PRs have been sent to update gitlint to 0.15.0 on the macOS package managers.

MacPorts: macports/macports-ports#9258
Homebrew: Homebrew/homebrew-core#65781