This document summarizes the process of doing a new release of this project. Release can only be performed by Datadog maintainers of this repository.

This project does not have a strict release schedule. However, we would make a release at least every 2 months.

• No release will be done if no changes got merged to the master branch during the above mentioned window.
• Releases may be done more frequently than the above mentioned window.

Our team will trigger the release pipeline.

• Install datadog_checks_dev using Python 3.

• See changes ready for release by running ddev release show changes . --tag-prefix v --since <CURRENT_VERSION> at the root of this project. Add any missing labels to PRs if needed.
• Run ddev release changelog . <NEW_VERSION> <CURRENT_VERSION> --no-semver to update the CHANGELOG.md file at the root of this repository
• Commit the changes to the repository in a release branch and open a PR.
  • Ensure CI passes fully here, this is the commit that will be released!
  • Ensure the documentation builds are passing
  • Get this PR approved and merged

1. Create the release on GitHub. Example
2. A github action will kick off that builds and publishes this tag to PyPI. Confirm the release is available