RELEASES.md

Instructions for creating a new release

Spinx-Copybutton is hosted on the pypi repository. To create a new release of sphinx-thebe, you need to do these things:

Before you start

1. Ensure that you have push access to the sphinx-thebe pypi repository
2. Install the twine package. This is a package that helps you bundle and push new Python package distributions to pip.

To create the release

To create a new release, open an issue to keep track of the to-do list for the release. Copy/paste the following markdown into the issue and check off the boxes as you complete items:

- [ ] Ensure that the [sphinx-thebe version number](https://github.com/executablebooks/sphinx-thebe/blob/master/jupyter_book/__init__.py)
   is correct, and remove the `dev0` part of the version number.
   Make a PR with the new number and merge into master.
- [ ] Create a new distribution for sphinx-thebe by
   [following the twine release instructions](https://twine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#using-twine)
- [ ] Confirm that the new version of sphinx-thebe [is posted to pypi](https://pypi.org/project/sphinx-thebe/)
- [ ] Bump the [sphinx-thebe version number](https://github.com/executablebooks/sphinx-thebe/blob/master/jupyter_book/__init__.py) to
   the next minor (or major) release and append `dev0` to the end.
- [ ] Celebrate! You've just released a new version of sphinx-thebe!