html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,user_label,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,issue,issue_label,performed_via_github_app
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/807#issuecomment-646320237,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/807,646320237,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDY0NjMyMDIzNw==,9599,simonw,2020-06-18T21:41:16Z,2020-06-18T21:41:16Z,OWNER,"https://pypi.org/project/datasette/0.45a0/ is the release on PyPI.

And in a fresh virtual environment:

```
$ pip install datasette==0.45a0
...
$ datasette --version
datasette, version 0.45a0
```
But running `pip install datasette` still gets 0.44.


","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",632843030,Ability to ship alpha and beta releases,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/807#issuecomment-646319315,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/807,646319315,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDY0NjMxOTMxNQ==,9599,simonw,2020-06-18T21:38:56Z,2020-06-18T21:38:56Z,OWNER,"This worked!

https://pypi.org/project/datasette/#history

<img width=""924"" alt=""Banners_and_Alerts_and_datasette_·_PyPI"" src=""https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9599/85074185-fd290980-b170-11ea-86b9-eebf8a30e94e.png"">

https://github.com/simonw/datasette/releases/tag/0.45a0 is my manually created GitHub prerelease.

https://datasette.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html#a0-2020-06-18 has the release notes.

A shame Read The Docs doesn't seem to build the docs for these releases -it's not showing the tag in the releases pane here:

<img width=""323"" alt=""Changelog_—_Datasette_documentation"" src=""https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9599/85074331-39f50080-b171-11ea-99b9-c70f8a89727b.png"">

Also the new tag isn't an option in the Build menu on https://readthedocs.org/projects/datasette/builds/

Not a big problem though since the ""latest"" tag on Read The Docs will still carry the in-development documentation.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",632843030,Ability to ship alpha and beta releases,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/807#issuecomment-646303240,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/807,646303240,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDY0NjMwMzI0MA==,9599,simonw,2020-06-18T21:00:41Z,2020-06-18T21:00:41Z,OWNER,New documentation about the alpha/beta releases: https://datasette.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing.html#contributing-alpha-beta,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",632843030,Ability to ship alpha and beta releases,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/807#issuecomment-646302909,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/807,646302909,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDY0NjMwMjkwOQ==,9599,simonw,2020-06-18T21:00:02Z,2020-06-18T21:00:02Z,OWNER,Alpha release is running through Travis now: https://travis-ci.org/github/simonw/datasette/builds/699864168,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",632843030,Ability to ship alpha and beta releases,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/807#issuecomment-646293670,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/807,646293670,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDY0NjI5MzY3MA==,9599,simonw,2020-06-18T20:38:50Z,2020-06-18T20:38:50Z,OWNER,"https://pypi.org/project/datasette-render-images/#history worked:

<img width=""904"" alt=""Banners_and_Alerts_and_datasette-render-images_·_PyPI"" src=""https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9599/85069459-02825600-b169-11ea-9747-cb24e26888d1.png"">

I'm now confident enough that I'll make these changes and ship an alpha of Datasette itself.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",632843030,Ability to ship alpha and beta releases,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/807#issuecomment-646293029,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/807,646293029,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDY0NjI5MzAyOQ==,9599,simonw,2020-06-18T20:37:28Z,2020-06-18T20:37:46Z,OWNER,"Here's the Read The Docs documentation on versioned releases: https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/versions.html

It looks like they do the right thing:

> We in fact are parsing your tag names against the rules given by PEP 440. This spec allows “normal” version numbers like 1.4.2 as well as pre-releases. An alpha version or a release candidate are examples of pre-releases and they look like this: 2.0a1.
> 
> We only consider non pre-releases for the stable version of your documentation.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",632843030,Ability to ship alpha and beta releases,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/807#issuecomment-646292578,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/807,646292578,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDY0NjI5MjU3OA==,9599,simonw,2020-06-18T20:36:22Z,2020-06-18T20:36:22Z,OWNER,"https://travis-ci.com/github/simonw/datasette-render-images/builds/172118541 demonstrates that the alpha/beta conditional is working as intended:

<img width=""1066"" alt=""Banners_and_Alerts_and_Build__13_-_simonw_datasette-render-images_-_Travis_CI"" src=""https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9599/85069271-b0413500-b168-11ea-8a40-7fe2ff0389b2.png"">","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",632843030,Ability to ship alpha and beta releases,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/807#issuecomment-646291309,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/807,646291309,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDY0NjI5MTMwOQ==,9599,simonw,2020-06-18T20:33:31Z,2020-06-18T20:33:31Z,OWNER,"One more experiment: I'm going to ship `datasette-render-images` 0.2 and see if that works correctly - including printing out the new debug section I put in the Travis config here: https://github.com/simonw/datasette-render-images/blob/6b5f22dab75ca364f671f5597556d2665a251bd8/.travis.yml#L35-L39 - which should demonstrate if my conditional for pushing to Docker Hub will work or not.

In the alpha releasing run on Travis that echo statement did NOT execute: https://travis-ci.com/github/simonw/datasette-render-images/builds/172116625","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",632843030,Ability to ship alpha and beta releases,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/807#issuecomment-646290171,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/807,646290171,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDY0NjI5MDE3MQ==,9599,simonw,2020-06-18T20:30:48Z,2020-06-18T20:30:48Z,OWNER,"OK, I just shipped 0.2a0 of `datasette-render-images` -  https://pypi.org/project/datasette-render-images/ has no indication of that:

<img width=""1330"" alt=""Banners_and_Alerts_and_datasette-render-images_·_PyPI"" src=""https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9599/85068682-acf97980-b167-11ea-863d-a169bd64c25a.png"">

But this page does: https://pypi.org/project/datasette-render-images/#history

<img width=""1382"" alt=""Banners_and_Alerts_and_datasette-render-images_·_PyPI"" src=""https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9599/85068736-c1d60d00-b167-11ea-801b-ebfc4fddbbed.png"">

And https://pypi.org/project/datasette-render-images/0.2a0/ exists.

In a fresh virtual environment `pip install datasette-render-images` gets 0.1.

`pip install datasette-render-images==0.2a0` gets 0.2a0.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",632843030,Ability to ship alpha and beta releases,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/807#issuecomment-646280134,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/807,646280134,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDY0NjI4MDEzNA==,9599,simonw,2020-06-18T20:08:15Z,2020-06-18T20:08:15Z,OWNER,https://github.com/simonw/datasette-render-images uses Travis and is low-risk for trying this out.,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",632843030,Ability to ship alpha and beta releases,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/807#issuecomment-646279428,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/807,646279428,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDY0NjI3OTQyOA==,9599,simonw,2020-06-18T20:06:43Z,2020-06-18T20:06:43Z,OWNER,I'm going to try this on a separate repository so I don't accidentally publish a Datasette release I didn't mean to publish!,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",632843030,Ability to ship alpha and beta releases,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/807#issuecomment-646279280,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/807,646279280,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDY0NjI3OTI4MA==,9599,simonw,2020-06-18T20:06:24Z,2020-06-18T20:06:24Z,OWNER,"So maybe this condition is right?

    if: (tag IS present) AND NOT (tag =~ [ab])","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",632843030,Ability to ship alpha and beta releases,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/807#issuecomment-646278801,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/807,646278801,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDY0NjI3ODgwMQ==,9599,simonw,2020-06-18T20:05:18Z,2020-06-18T20:05:18Z,OWNER,"Travis conditions documentation: https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/conditions-v1

These look useful:
```
branch =~ /^(one|two)-three$/
(tag =~ ^v) AND (branch = master)
```
","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",632843030,Ability to ship alpha and beta releases,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/807#issuecomment-646277680,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/807,646277680,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDY0NjI3NzY4MA==,9599,simonw,2020-06-18T20:02:42Z,2020-06-18T20:02:42Z,OWNER,"So I think if I push a tag of `0.45a0` everything might just work - Travis will build it, push the build to PyPI, PyPI won't treat it as a stable release.

Except... I don't want to push alphas as Docker images - so I need to fix this code:

https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/6151c25a5a8d566c109af296244b9267c536bd9a/.travis.yml#L34-L43","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",632843030,Ability to ship alpha and beta releases,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/807#issuecomment-646277155,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/807,646277155,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDY0NjI3NzE1NQ==,9599,simonw,2020-06-18T20:01:31Z,2020-06-18T20:01:31Z,OWNER,"I thought I might have to update a regex (my CircleCI configs won't match on `a0`, [example](https://github.com/simonw/datasette-publish-now/blob/420f349b278857f62183d8e9835d64f116758be7/.circleci/config.yml#L22)) but it turns out Travis is currently configured to treat ALL tags as potential releases:

https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/6151c25a5a8d566c109af296244b9267c536bd9a/.travis.yml#L21-L35","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",632843030,Ability to ship alpha and beta releases,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/807#issuecomment-646276150,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/807,646276150,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDY0NjI3NjE1MA==,9599,simonw,2020-06-18T19:59:17Z,2020-06-18T19:59:17Z,OWNER,"Relevant PEP: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/

Django's implementation dates back 8 years: https://github.com/django/django/commit/40f0ecc56a23d35c2849f8e79276f6d8931412d1

From the PEP:

> Implicit pre-release number
>
> Pre releases allow omitting the numeral in which case it is implicitly assumed to be 0. The normal form for this is to include the 0 explicitly. This allows versions such as 1.2a which is normalized to 1.2a0.

I'm going to habitually include the 0.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",632843030,Ability to ship alpha and beta releases,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/807#issuecomment-646273035,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/807,646273035,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDY0NjI3MzAzNQ==,9599,simonw,2020-06-18T19:52:28Z,2020-06-18T19:52:28Z,OWNER,"I'd like this soon, because I want to start experimenting with things like #852 and #842 without shipping those plugin hooks in a full stable release.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",632843030,Ability to ship alpha and beta releases,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/807#issuecomment-640135332,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/807,640135332,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDY0MDEzNTMzMg==,9599,simonw,2020-06-07T00:13:51Z,2020-06-07T00:13:51Z,OWNER,"These should not be shipped as the latest version on Docker Hub. They also should not become the ""stable"" release on ReadTheDocs.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",632843030,Ability to ship alpha and beta releases,