Release Assistant

This is a pocket app that maintains a CHANGELOG.md file and a dist folder containing binary artifacts that should be versioned.

Before running it, install the required dependencies with:

$ ./assistant.py reqs > requirements.txt
$ pip3 install --user -r requirements.txt

Then run:

$ ./assistant.py

Point your browser to http://127.0.0.1:5757/ and enjoy!

P.S.: You may want to configure some settings in the assistant.py script, such as the URL of your bugtracking system (see the variable BUGTRACKING_URL).

Working with branches

Put assistant.py on your project and create a file named .branches.py containing a Python-like set with the branches used to store artifacts.

For example:

{
  'branchA',
  'branchB'
}

You may have other branches in the repository, but only these two will be handled by the assistant.py.

When handling multiple branches, don't forget to replicate the assistant.py script.

The CHANGELOG.md file

You may edit the file manually for fixing past log entries. In this case, please follow the format below:

## [version] - [date]
[comments]

Avoid to use headings in the [comments] as they may conflict with the version headers. Stick to normal paragraphs, lists, etc.