[Docutils-develop] docutils 0.22 release plan

[engelbert g. <eng...@gm...>]

hello everyone,

the plan

* freeze now, only small corrections to the code till release
* 0.22rc1 on tuesday may 6th
* 0.22 on tuesday may 21th if no stopper shows up.

after more than a year a lot of changes have accumulated, some

* General
  - We have started to add type hints to Docutils (feature-request #87).
    This will be a complex programme of work and as such,
    for the time being, these type hints are "provisional"
    and should not be relied upon.

    By default, the Python interpreter treats type hints as annotations.
    Python >= 3.10 is required with active type hints
    (``typing.TYPE_CHECKING == True``).
* docutils/frontend.py
  - Drop short options ``-i`` and ``-o`` for ``--input-encoding``
    and ``--output-encoding``.
* very many internal changes, to clarify and stabilize
* docutils/writers/_html_base.py
  - Make MathML the default math_output_.
  - ...
* docutils/writers/latex2e
  - Support SVG image inclusion with the "svg" LaTeX package (see the
  - and more
* docutils/writers/manpage.py
  - better reference (URI) support

in detail https://docutils.sourceforge.io/HISTORY.html


all the best
 e