Alex Gaynor • 9/17/2013

Doing a release is too hard

The author details the tedious, error-prone manual steps for releasing a Python package (alchimia), including updating version numbers and uploading to PyPI. They contrast this with OpenStack's automated release workflow using git tags and CI/CD, which handles packaging, documentation, and publishing automatically. The article argues for adopting similar automation tools to simplify software releases.

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#Python #git #continuous integration