postal-address 0.4.1

Motivation

« What ties us to territory is tax. » – Kevin Deldycke, 2014-11-07

The reason above is why we need fine-grained and meticulous territory management and normalization. This project aims to solve this problem once for all.

Don’t get me wrong, this work is a huge undertaking. Postal address parsing, normalization and rendering is hard. Much harder than you think. Please read the famous Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses pamphlet.

This library is still in its early stages, but is good enough to implement the new European Directives on VAT, which requires all e-commerce shops to guess the locality of their EU customers depending on their billing address.

Stability policy

Here is a bunch of rules we’re trying to follow regarding stability:

• Patch releases (0.x.n → 0.x.(n+1) upgrades) are bug-fix only. These releases must not break anything and keeps backward-compatibility with 0.x.* and 0.(x-1).* series.

• Minor releases (0.n.* → 0.(n+1).0 upgrades) includes any non-bugfix changes. These releases must be backward-compatible with any 0.n.* version but are allowed to drop compatibility with the 0.(n-1).* series and below.

• Major releases (n.*.* → (n+1).0.0 upgrades) are not planned yet: we’re still in beta and the final feature set of the 1.0.0 release is not decided yet.

Release process

Start from the develop branch:

git clone git@github.com:online-labs/postal-address.git
git checkout develop

Update revision to its release number and update change log:

vi ./postal_address/__init__.py
vi ./CHANGES.rst

Create a release commit, tag it and merge it back to master branch:

git add ./postal_address/__init__.py ./CHANGES.rst
git commit -m "Release vXX.XX.XX"
git tag "vXX.XX.XX"
git push
git push --tags
git checkout master
git pull
git merge "vXX.XX.XX"
git push

Push packaging to the test cheeseshop:

python setup.py register -r testpypi
pip install wheel
rm -rf ./build ./dist
python setup.py sdist bdist_egg bdist_wheel upload -r testpypi

Publish packaging to PyPi:

python setup.py register -r pypi
rm -rf ./build ./dist
python setup.py sdist bdist_egg bdist_wheel upload -r pypi

Bump revision back to its development state:

git checkout develop
vi ./postal_address/__init__.py
vi ./CHANGES.rst
git add ./postal_address/__init__.py ./CHANGES.rst
git commit -m "Post release version bump."

License

This software is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 or later (GPLv2+).

0.4.1 (2015-03-26)

• Base our custom InvalidAddress exception on ValueError to increase backward compatibility.

0.4.0 (2015-03-25)

• Show subdivision as-is in rendered address if not already printed by state, country or city.

• Document stability policy. Closes #8.

• Change internals to refer to address components as fields.

• Raise custom exception on address validation a detailed list of invalid fields in one go. Closes #7.

0.3.3 (2015-03-25)

• Fix bad released version.

0.3.2 (2015-03-25)

• Add backward compatibility to the 0.2 series following territory utils split out of the address module. See #8 and #9.

0.3.1 (2015-03-05)

• Fix rendering of state in address.

0.3.0 (2015-03-04)

• Remove backward compatibility with 0.1.0.

• Allow direct import of classes from module root.

• Split territory utils out to their own file. See #3.

• Rename normalize_country_code to country_from_subdivision. Mark the former as deprecated.

• Address normalization is now non-blocking. It simply reset invalid components to None. Only a call to validate method check data consistency.

0.2.1 (2014-12-22)

• Push a new release to fix cached desynced packages on cheeseshops and clones.

0.2.0 (2014-12-18)

• Package the whole module for proper distribution.

0.1.1 (2014-12-16)

• Restore partial backward compatibility with address module from 0.1.0.

0.1.0 (2014-12-15)

• First public release.

0.0.0 (2013-12-06)

• First commit.