pytest 6.2 release planning

[bluetech]

I'd like to release pytest 6.2 next Saturday (2020-12-12). Please let me know if you have any comments or reservations.

One thing is #7695, I plan to take care of it until then (probably by merging).

[nicoddemus]

Sounds good! I meant to bring this up this week, but didn't have the time, thanks for stepping in. 👍

[bluetech]

@pytestbot please prepare release from 6.2.x

[pytestbot]

Found features or breaking changes in 6.2.x, and feature releases can only be
created from master:

• 5299.feature.rst
• 7425.feature.rst
• 7695.feature.rst
• 7808.breaking.rst
• 8006.feature.rst

[bluetech]

@pytestbot please prepare release from master

[pytestbot]

The request to prepare release 6.2.0 from master failed with:

CalledProcessError
output:

stderr:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.8.6/x64/bin/tox", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(cmdline())
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.8.6/x64/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tox/session/__init__.py", line 44, in cmdline
    main(args)
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.8.6/x64/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tox/session/__init__.py", line 65, in main
    config = load_config(args)
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.8.6/x64/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tox/session/__init__.py", line 81, in load_config
    config = parseconfig(args)
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.8.6/x64/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tox/config/__init__.py", line 278, in parseconfig
    ParseIni(config, config_file, content)
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.8.6/x64/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tox/config/__init__.py", line 1201, in __init__
    self.handle_provision(config, reader)
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.8.6/x64/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tox/config/__init__.py", line 1275, in handle_provision
    deps = self.ensure_requires_satisfied(config, requires_list, min_version)
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.8.6/x64/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tox/config/__init__.py", line 1324, in ensure_requires_satisfied
    raise tox.exception.Error(msg.format(sys.executable, missing_requirements))
tox.exception.Error: Error: break infinite loop provisioning within /opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.8.6/x64/bin/python missing ['pip>=20.3.1']

See: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/actions/runs/417584552.

[bluetech]

@pytestbot please prepare release from master

[pytestbot]

The request to prepare release 6.2.0 from master failed with:

CalledProcessError
output:
release create: /home/runner/work/pytest/pytest/.tox/release
release installdeps: colorama, github3.py, pre-commit>=2.9.3, wheel, towncrier
release develop-inst: /home/runner/work/pytest/pytest
release installed: appdirs==1.4.4,argcomplete==1.12.2,attrs==20.3.0,certifi==2020.12.5,cffi==1.14.4,cfgv==3.2.0,chardet==3.0.4,click==7.1.2,colorama==0.4.4,cryptography==3.3.1,distlib==0.3.1,elementpath==2.0.5,filelock==3.0.12,github3.py==1.3.0,hypothesis==5.43.3,identify==1.5.10,idna==2.10,incremental==17.5.0,iniconfig==1.1.1,Jinja2==2.11.2,jwcrypto==0.8,MarkupSafe==1.1.1,mock==4.0.3,nodeenv==1.5.0,nose==1.3.7,packaging==20.8,pluggy==0.13.1,pre-commit==2.9.3,py==1.10.0,pycparser==2.20,pyparsing==2.4.7,-e git+https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest@d51ecbd44d7e2f4f8c21f246fe9ed034bc8bae5b#egg=pytest,python-dateutil==2.8.1,PyYAML==5.3.1,requests==2.25.0,six==1.15.0,sortedcontainers==2.3.0,toml==0.10.2,towncrier==19.2.0,uritemplate==3.0.1,urllib3==1.26.2,virtualenv==20.2.2,xmlschema==1.3.1
release run-test-pre: PYTHONHASHSEED='2070991850'
release run-test: commands[0] | python scripts/release.py 6.2.0 --skip-check-links
[generate.announce] Generated release-6.2.0.rst
[generate.announce] Updated index.rst
[generate.regen] Updating docs
.package create: /home/runner/work/pytest/pytest/.tox/.package
.package installdeps: setuptools>=42.0, setuptools-scm[toml]>=3.4, wheel
regen create: /home/runner/work/pytest/pytest/.tox/regen
regen installdeps: dataclasses, PyYAML, regendoc>=0.6.1, sphinx
ERROR: invocation failed (exit code 1), logfile: /home/runner/work/pytest/pytest/.tox/regen/log/regen-1.log
================================== log start ===================================
Collecting dataclasses
  Downloading dataclasses-0.6-py3-none-any.whl (14 kB)
Collecting PyYAML
  Using cached PyYAML-5.3.1-cp38-cp38-linux_x86_64.whl
Collecting regendoc>=0.6.1
  Downloading regendoc-0.6.1.tar.gz (5.8 kB)
ERROR: Requested regendoc>=0.6.1 from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/a8/5d/206e4951420bf5bbe1475c66eb06ec40d9177035e223858fee890eed0188/regendoc-0.6.1.tar.gz#sha256=db1e8c9ae02c1af559eae105bfd77ba41ed07fc8ca7030ea59db5f3f161236a4 has different version in metadata: '6.2.0'

=================================== log end ====================================
ERROR: could not install deps [dataclasses, PyYAML, regendoc>=0.6.1, sphinx]; v = InvocationError("/home/runner/work/pytest/pytest/.tox/regen/bin/python -m pip install dataclasses PyYAML 'regendoc>=0.6.1' sphinx", 1)
___________________________________ summary ____________________________________
ERROR:   regen: could not install deps [dataclasses, PyYAML, regendoc>=0.6.1, sphinx]; v = InvocationError("/home/runner/work/pytest/pytest/.tox/regen/bin/python -m pip install dataclasses PyYAML 'regendoc>=0.6.1' sphinx", 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "scripts/release.py", line 120, in <module>
    main()
  File "scripts/release.py", line 116, in main
    pre_release(options.version, skip_check_links=options.skip_check_links)
  File "scripts/release.py", line 87, in pre_release
    regen(version)
  File "scripts/release.py", line 64, in regen
    check_call(
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.8.6/x64/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 364, in check_call
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['tox', '-e', 'regen']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
ERROR: InvocationError for command /home/runner/work/pytest/pytest/.tox/release/bin/python scripts/release.py 6.2.0 --skip-check-links (exited with code 1)
___________________________________ summary ____________________________________
ERROR:   release: commands failed

stderr:

See: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/actions/runs/417633005.

[bluetech]

The problem above is described in this commit message:

tox: workaround SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION failing pip install regendoc

The env var effects all of the pip installs, including regendoc which
also uses setuptools-scm, so it gets the wrong version, and fails to
install with the new pip resolver:

    ERROR: Requested regendoc from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/a8/5d/206e4951420bf5bbe1475c66eb06ec40d9177035e223858fee890eed0188/regendoc-0.6.1.tar.gz#sha256=db1e8c9ae02c1af559eae105bfd77ba41ed07fc8ca7030ea59db5f3f161236a4 has different version in metadata: '6.2.0'

The fix in that commit is to use SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION_FOR_PYTEST instead of SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION. But I found out that @RonnyPfannschmidt only added this feature to setuptools-scm very recently and it's not released yet, so doesn't work yet.

[bluetech]

@pytestbot please prepare release from master