Version 3.8 Release

[carltongibson]

This is the PR for the Version 3.8 Release.

• Create pull request for release notes based on the 3.8 milestone.
  • Update Release Notes
• Write release announcement
• Update supported versions:
  • setup.py python_requires list
  • setup.py Python & Django version trove classifiers
  • README Python & Django versions
  • docs Python & Django versions
• Update the translations from transifex.
• Ensure the pull request increments the version to 3.8.0 in restframework/__init__.py.
• Confirm with @tomchristie that release is finalized and ready to go.
• Ensure that release date is included in pull request.
• Merge the release pull request.
• Push the package to PyPI with ./setup.py publish.
• Tag the release, with git tag -a 3.8.0 -m 'version 3.8.0'; git push --tags.
• Deploy the documentation with mkdocs gh-deploy.
• Make a release announcement on the discussion group.
• Make a release announcement on twitter.
• Close the milestone on GitHub.

[carltongibson]

@xordoquy @rpkilby I began this now, adding the skeleton for the release announcement in case you want to add any notes ref boolean permissions, viewset actions, namespaces etc.

If so:

• Just add them here.
• Happy to see notes/todos/bullet points etc: we can tidy up just before release.

If not:

• No issues 🙂

[xordoquy]

Thanks. Will try to get some time this evening to add some documentation about the permissions thing.

[carltongibson]

@xordoquy Cool. Thanks. No stress — we can take what time we need.

If you want help let me know!

[tomchristie]

Currently working on coreapi version 3.0.

• Include typesystem in the core package - no more coreschema.
• Built-in OpenAPI support. Should end up being much better supported than the previous codec.
• Now only aimed at Schema support. Not general-purpose Hypermedia.
• Will be looking at building a stand-alone schema->docs generation tool alongside it (which should help flesh out any bits we ought to include that we're currently missing from our schema representations.)

Something we could consider for 3.8 would be a management command for dumping out the schema representation. Given that we'll have built-in OpenAPI support with the next version of coreapi I think this'd make a nice addition.

[carltongibson]

@tomchristie Great stuff! I can add a management command.

[tomchristie]

Looking good, yup! I'll fill in the "What's next" section.

[xordoquy]

seems it went off the radar. When will the release be finished ?

[carltongibson]

@xordoquy Looking to go this week