docs(contributing): the release steps, so the CHANGELOG roll is not skipped

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CONTRIBUTING.md asks for entries under ## [Unreleased] but never says when that section becomes a release, so releases v1.17.0 through v1.21.0 shipped without the roll. This adds a short "Cutting a release" section: roll the changelog in a PR first, publish the GitHub release directly (a draft never triggers the PyPI workflow), and read the workflow's install check.

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CONTRIBUTING.md adds a “Cutting a release” section. It documents changelog updates, direct publication of a GitHub release, and checking the installation test workflow.

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Document the release steps CONTRIBUTING.md	The new section describes how to roll the changelog, publish a GitHub release without a draft, and check the test-pip-installation job.

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The release guidance could prompt an unnecessary patch release after an upload failure. The impact is limited to release handling, but the retry instructions should be corrected before maintainers rely on them.

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- Around line 117-118: Update the PyPI publishing guidance in the release
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<excerpt>Skip to content - Organization Accounts - Pricing and Payments - Support - Trusted Publishers - Digital Attestations - Project Metadata - APIs and Datasets - Integrity API - Stats API - BigQuery Datasets - RSS Feeds - Secret reporting API # Upload API The API endpoint served at https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/ is Warehouse&`#39`;s emulation of the legacy PyPI upload API. This is the endpoint that tools such as twine use to upload distributions to PyPI. ## Routes ### Upload a file Important Releases on PyPI are created by uploading one file at a time. The first file uploaded of a new version creates a release for that version, and populates its metadata. Route: `POST upload.pypi.org/legacy/` The upload API can be used to upload artifacts by sending a `multipart/form-data` POST request with the following fields: - `:action` set to `file_upload` - `protocol_version` set to `1` - `content` with the file to be uploaded and the proper filename (e.g. `my_foo_bar-4.2-cp36-cp36m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl`) - One of the following hash digests:`md5_digest` set to the md5 hash of the uploaded file in urlsafe base64 with no padding`sha256_digest` set to the SHA2-256 hash in hexadecimal`blake2_256_digest` set to the Blake2b 256-bit hash in hexadecimal - `filetype` must be set to the type of the artifact: `bdist_wheel` or `sdist`. - `pyversion` must be set to a Python tag for `bdist_wheel` uploads, or `source` for `sdist` uploads. - `metadata_version`, `name` and `version` must be set according to the Core metadata specifications - `attestations` can be set to a JSON array of attestation objects. PyPI will reject the upload if it can&`#39`;t verify each of the supplied attestations. - You can set any other field from the Core metadata specifications. All fields need to be renamed to lowercase and hyphens need to replaced by underscores. Additionally, multiple-use fields (like `Classifier`) are pluralized (e.g. `classifiers`) with some limited exceptions noted below: | Metadata field | Form field | | --- | --- | | Platform | platform (not platforms) | | Supported-Platform | supported_platform (not supported_platforms) | | License-File | license_file (not license_files) | | Warning | | | The transformation above must be performed. Sending a form field like `Description-Content-Type` will not raise an error but will be silently ignored. | |</excerpt>
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<excerpt>This page documents the PyPI-specific JSON API. If all you need is a JSON index API (e.g. for retrieving) all distributions or all versions for a package, you can use the Index API. ... Returns metadata (info) about an individual project at the latest version, a list of all releases for that project, and project URLs. Releases include the release name, URL, and hash digests for MD5, SHA256, and BLAKE2b-256, and are keyed by the release version string. Metadata returned comes from the values provided at upload time and does not necessarily match the content of the uploaded files. The first uploaded data for a release is stored, subsequent uploads do not update it. ... ### Get a release ... Route: ` ... /pypi/ / /json` ... Returns metadata about an individual release at a specific version, otherwise identical to `/pypi/&lt;project_name&gt;/json` minus the `releases` key. ... This response previously included the `releases` key, which had the URLs for all files for every release of this project on PyPI. Due to stability concerns, this had to be removed from the release specific page, which now only serves data specific to that release. ... To access all files, you should preferably use the Index API, or otherwise use the project-level JSON api at `/pypi/&lt;project_name&gt;/json`.</excerpt>
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<title>Source distribution format ¶</title>
<location>https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/source-distribution-format/</location>
<excerpt># Source distribution format ¶ ... The current standard source distribution format is identified by the presence of a `pyproject.toml` file in the distribution archive. The layout of such a distribution was originally specified in PEP 517 and is formally documented here. ... There is also the legacy source distribution format, implicitly ... of `dist ... ` module in the ... library, when executing setup.py sdist. This document does not attempt to standardise this format, except to note that if a legacy source distribution contains a ... PKG-INFO` file using metadata version 2.2 or later, then it MUST follow the rules applicable to source distributions defined in the metadata specification. ... A source tree is a collection of files and directories – like a version control system checkout – which contains a `pyproject.toml` file that can be used to build a source distribution from the contained files and directories. PEP 517 and PEP 518 specify what is required to meet the definition of what `pyproject.toml` must contain for something to be deemed a source tree. ... The file name of a sdist was standardised in PEP 625. The file name must be in the form `{name}-{version}.tar.gz`, where `{name}` is normalised according to the same rules as for binary distributions (see Binary distribution format), and `{version}` is the canonicalized form of the project version (see Version specifiers). ... that processes source distribution files MAY ... source distribution files ... suffix and the ... one hyphen in the ... that does this may then use the distribution ... version from the ... A `.tar.gz` source distribution (sdist) contains a single top-level directory called `{name}-{version}` (e.g. `foo-1.0`), containing the source files of the package. The name and version MUST match the metadata stored in the file. This directory must also contain a `pyproject.toml` in the format defined in pyproject.toml specification, and a `PKG-INFO` file containing metadata in the format described in the Core metadata specifications specification. The metadata MUST conform to at least version 2.2 of the metadata specification. ... The tarball must use ... modern POSIX.1- ... 1 pax tar format, which ... UTF-8 ... file names. In ... , source distribution files must be readable using the standard library tarfile module with the open flag ‘r:gz’. ... Because extracting tar files as-is is dangerous, and the results are platform-specific, archive features of source distributions are limited. ... When extracting a source distribution, tools MUST either use `tarfile.data_filter()` (e.g. `TarFile.extractall(..., filter=&`#39`;data&`#39`;)`), OR follow the Unpacking without the data filter section below.</excerpt>
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<excerpt>## Uploading your Project to PyPI¶ ... When you ran the command to create your distribution, a new directory `dist/`was created under your project’s root directory. That’s where you’ll find your distribution file(s) to upload. ... These files are only created when you run the command to create your distribution. This means that any time you change the source of your project or the configuration in your `setup.py` file, you will need to rebuild these files again before you can distribute the changes to PyPI. ... In other resources you may encounter references to using`python setup.py register` and `python setup ... upload`. These methods of ... and uploading a ... are **strongly discouraged** as ... unverified HTTPS connection ... , allowing your username and password ... intercepted during transmission. ... if your brief / long descriptions ... ### Upload your distributions¶ ... Once you have an account you can upload your distributions toPyPI using twine. ... The process for uploading a release is the same regardless of whether or not the project already exists on PyPI - if it doesn’t exist yet, it will be automatically created when the first release is uploaded. ... For the second and subsequent releases, PyPI only requires that the version number of the new release differ from any previous releases. ... twine upload dist/* ... You can see if your package has successfully uploaded by navigating to the URL`https://pypi.org/project/ ` where `sampleproject` is the name of your project that you uploaded. ... may take a minute or two for your project to appear on the site.</excerpt>
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<excerpt>## Upload to the package distribution service ¶ ... The twine tool can upload build artifacts to PyPI for distribution, using a command like: ... ``` twine upload dist/package-name-version.tar.gz dist/package-name-version-py3-none-any.whl ``` ... Or, your build tool may provide its own interface for uploading.</excerpt>
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Citations:

- 1: https://docs.pypi.org/api/upload/
- 2: https://docs.pypi.org/api/json/
- 3: https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/source-distribution-format/
- 4: https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/distributing-packages-using-setuptools/
- 5: https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/flow/
- 6: https://docs.pypi.org/project-management/yanking/

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Make the PyPI retry rule file-specific.

.github/workflows/publish_package.yml uploads both an sdist and a wheel for the same version. PyPI blocks reuse of an accepted distribution filename, but it allows additional files for that version. If no file was accepted, the release can be retried. Use a new version only when an accepted artifact must be replaced.

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In `@CONTRIBUTING.md` around lines 117 - 118, Update the PyPI publishing guidance
in the release instructions to make retries file-specific: allow retrying when
no artifact was accepted or uploading additional files for the same version, and
require a new version only to replace an accepted artifact.

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