[Docutils-develop] Towards Docutils 1.0

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

Dear Docutils developers,

after Docutils release 0.22.3 solved incompatibilities with some Sphinx
extensions, the new `stable Sphinx`__ officially works with 

  docutils>=0.20,<0.23

__ https://pypi.org/project/Sphinx/


My ideas for the next steps are

* wait for 2, ..., 4 weeks to see whether there are bug reports that can be
  fixed in a 0.22.4 "micro release".

* Release 0.22.4 (which already contains some smaller fixes as well as
  announcements of upcoming changes, see HISTORY and RELEASE-NOTES).

* There are some new features in patches and local branches that could
  result in a 0.23 version soon after that.

* If possible, do the conversion of our repository from SVN to Git.
  
* Then prepare for Docutils 1.0.


Feedback and ideas are much appreciated.

    
Have a nice "Adventszeit"

Günter