Welcome to ppx_import, and thanks for willing to contribute to its development.
Quick release instructions: Run git tag -a + dune-release.
The preferred workflow to release ppx_import is to use
dune-release.
The first (and most important) step is to tag the release and push it to the main repository.
We recommend you do this manually. As dune-release uses git describe to gather versioning information, your tag must be
annotated. Using git tag -a or git tag -s will do the job. Please
add the version changes to the tag annotation message.
You can also use dune-release tag, which will try to infer the
tag information from CHANGES.md, however the current heuristics
seem too fragile and the changes list may not be properly updated.
Once the tag is in place, calling dune-release will build, lint, run
the tests, create the opam package, upload the archives and
docs to the release page, and submit a pull request to the OPAM
repository.
Under the hood, dune-release executes the following 4 commands:
dune-release distrib # Create the distribution archive
dune-release publish # Publish it on the WWW with its documentation
dune-release opam pkg # Create an opam package
dune-release opam submit # Submit it to OCaml's opam repository
It is often useful to run the commands separately as to have better control of the release process.
Note that you will need the proper permissions for the publish step,
including setting a Github access token, see dune-release help files for more information.