@dhermes Could you please do a release for the trace package? Thanks!

@liyanhui1228 Can you draft some release notes, in the style of https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-python/releases/tag/storage-1.3.0?

You can run

$ git log -1 --pretty=%H 
c0bbf6d24bf43d8ca68f0af9c615734cd7607b89
$ git log trace-0.15.4..HEAD -- trace/

to decide what should go in the release notes

I'm not sure a release will be easy, google-cloud-core may confuse things. Let's hope not.

@dhermes The release notes can just be empty like what we did in last release :)
What problem will be caused by google-cloud-core?

We should always publish release notes when we make releases, even if the changes are trivial.

@jonparrott Thanks! I drafted the release note like below,

Notable Implementation Changes

• Add scope for trace client, which fixes the issue when setting credentials file via $GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS. (Add scope for trace client #4158)

Packaging

• Fix namespace package declaration in setup.py. (Fix namespace package declaration for trace. #3922)

@liyanhui1228 I'd be fine leaving the deps changes out of the release notes. What about #3922? (It looks like @lukesneeringer intended there to be a 0.15.5 release but never managed one.)

@dhermes OK! I removed the dependencies notes, and added packaging note.

Friendly ping.

I made https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-python/tree/trace-cherry-pick to avoid being gated on google-cloud-core. In particular:

commit 863d293f16f7df1962a4a367b8bf913daefe02fe
Author: Danny Hermes <daniel.j.hermes@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Oct 13 15:33:01 2017 -0700

    Rolling back the dependency update for trace.
    
    This is so that an "off-master" release can be done
    without being gated on a `google-cloud-core` release.

diff --git a/trace/setup.py b/trace/setup.py
index c14fbbe..8072778 100644
--- a/trace/setup.py
+++ b/trace/setup.py
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
 install_requires = [
     'google-gax>=0.15.7, <0.16dev',
-    'google-cloud-core[grpc] >= 0.27.1, < 0.28dev',
+    'googleapis-common-protos[grpc]>=1.5.2, <2.0dev',
+    'google-cloud-core >= 0.27.0, < 0.28dev',
 ]
 
 setup(

Thanks! So this release will be based on the trace-cherry-pick branch? Can we release it today?

The branch is now deleted and immortalized as https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-python/releases/tag/trace-0.15.5.

This build (https://circleci.com/gh/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-python/3757) should push to PyPI.