Packaging and deployment

Packaging

This plugin is using the qgis-plugin-ci tool to perform packaging operations.
The package command is performing a git archive run based on changelog.

Install additional dependencies:

python -m pip install -U -r requirements/packaging.txt

# package a specific version
qgis-plugin-ci package 1.3.1
# package latest version
qgis-plugin-ci package latest

Release a version

Everything is done through the continuous deployment:

1. Add the new version to the CHANGELOG.md. You can write it manually or use the auto-generated release notes by Github:

   1. Go to project’s releases and click on Draft a new release

   2. In Choose a tag, enter the new tag

   3. Click on Generate release notes

   4. Copy/paste the generated text from ## What's changed until the line before **Full changelog**:... in the CHANGELOG.md replacing What's changed with the tag and the publication date

2. Change the version number in metadata.txt

3. Apply a git tag with the relevant version: git tag -a 0.3.0 {git commit hash} -m "This version rocks!"

4. Push tag to main branch: git push origin 0.3.0