Publish camunda-external-task-client-python3 as python package in pypi

[danbailo]

Hello everyone!

I want to publish the repository https://github.com/camunda-community-hub/camunda-external-task-client-python3 as python package in pypi.

Motivation: Some projects that install it as github package, example in poetry:

camunda-external-task-client-python3 = {git = "https://github.com/camunda-community-hub/camunda-external-task-client-python3.git"}

and it's is very problematic because doing it, we lose the control of version of application. Supposing that we merge some bug in main, every build of projects that install it will crash!

So, the goal is publish the package to get the control version, that way we can install the version "0.0.1", "0.0.2", etc.

What do you think?

[danbailo]

Currently, the only thing that blocks me from doing this is having access to the account that will configure the credentials in pypi to upload this.

[MaxTru]

Hi @danbailo ,
I am happy to support setting up an automation that publishes to pypi on package release.
However, I see that https://github.com/yogeshrnaik already has this package published: https://pypi.org/project/camunda-external-task-client-python3/.
@yogeshrnaik wdyt - shall we place your packaged library with central release from this repo here?

[yogeshrnaik]

@MaxTru
Yes, pls go ahead and add the automation to publish to pypi (via Gitactions would be preferable).
Thanks.

[danbailo]

great! I can implement this deploy but, we will use the account of yogeshrnaik or some official camunda account? Remebering that we need some credentials to config the CI/CD to push the package to github actions.

We can talk about the infra too, but, I'm thinking to implement the following pipe:

always a PR is merged in main, then an automation will package version. The package version will use semver and the versioning will be automated too.

What do you think guys?

cc @MaxTru @yogeshrnaik

[MaxTru]

@danbailo , I asked someone from our Infra Engineers to chime in. They will get back to you. Please stay tuned.

Pragmatically I would suggest that someone from our side (Camunda) takes over the pypi package from https://github.com/yogeshrnaik (we will reach out to you :-) ), and provide a GHA to auto-release on pypi for every github release.

[danbailo]

perfect for me, tks for attencion.

If you all from Camunda need help with publishing automation, call me.

[danbailo]

[BPMN-Parser]
An off-topic comment.

I develop the BPMN-Parser. It's util to read camunda bpmn models and built some features over it, such as linters, some GUI, etc.

-> https://github.com/danbailo/bpmn-parser