New general release creation script

Author: Peter Giacomo Lombardo

bin/create_general_release.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# Script to make a new python-sensor release on Github
+# Requires the Github CLI to be installed and configured: https://github.com/cli/cli
+
+import os
+import sys
+import distutils.spawn
+from subprocess import check_output
+
+if len(sys.argv) != 2:
+    raise ValueError('Please specify the version to release. e.g. "1.27.1"')
+
+if sys.argv[1] in ['-h', '--help']:
+    filename = os.path.basename(__file__)
+    print("Usage: %s <version number>" % filename)
+    print("Exampe: %s 1.27.1" % filename)
+    print("")
+    print("This will create a release on Github such as:")
+    print("https://github.com/instana/python-sensor/releases/tag/v1.27.1")
+
+
+# Check requirements first
+for cmd in ["gh"]:
+    if distutils.spawn.find_executable(cmd) is None:
+        print("Can't find required tool: %s" % cmd)
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+version = sys.argv[1]
+semantic_version = 'v' + version
+title = version
+
+body = """
+This release includes the following fixes & improvements:
+
+*
+
+Available on PyPI:
+https://pypi.python.org/pypi/instana/%s
+""" % version
+
+response = check_output(["gh", "release", "create", semantic_version,
+                         "-d", # draft
+                         "-R", "instana/python-sensor",
+                         "-t", semantic_version,
+                         "-n", body])
+
+
+print("If there weren't any failures, the draft release is available at:")
+print(response.strip().decode())