Release 5.3.0

[corranwebster]

Pre-release

• [x] Backport PRs that have been merged to main to the maintenance branch. Use the "need backport ..." tag if there is one (but don't rely 100% on it)
• [x] Verify that no other open issue needs to be addressed before the release.
• [x] Test against other ETS packages and other ETS-using projects
• [x] Check MANIFEST, requirements, changelog are still up to date.
• [x] Test building the documentation

Major/Minor Release

• [x] Create branch release/<release version number> from main branch.
  • [x] Set release to <release version number>, and set IS_RELEASED is true; commit
  • [x] Install from source distribution and run tests again
  • [x] Open a PR against main with this being the last commit so that CI is built on the release commit
  • [x] merge the PR when it is approved
• [x] Create a post-release PR branch from main branch.
  • [x] Bump the minor version number i.e. <release version number + 0.1.0> and set IS_RELEASED to false; commit.
  • [x] Open a PR against main
  • [x] Merge the PR when it is approved
• [x] From the commit at which IS_RELEASED is true and version is <release version number>, create a new maintenance branch maint/<major version>.<minor version> and push it to github
  • [x] create a PR branch against maint/<release version number>
  • [x] Bump the micro version number i.e. <release version number + 0.0.1> and set IS_RELEASED to false; commit.
  • [x] open a PR against maint/<release version number>
  • [x] Merge the PR when it is approved
• [x] From the commit at which IS_RELEASED is true and version is <release version number>, tag (annotated!) git tag -a -m "Release <release version number>" <release version number>
  • [x] Push the tag git push origin <release version number>
• [x] Make PR targeting gh-pages branch: Generate documentation and copy the content to the branch. Verify that the resulting index.html looks good.
• [x] Update GitHub Release pages https://github.com/enthought/pyface/releases
• [x] Create a release on PyPI
• [x] Test the PyPI package

Post-release

• [ ] Package update for enthought/free repository (for EDM)
• [ ] Announcement (e.g. Google Group)