Thanks for the quick merge!

no idea how to release a new version anymore

Dub documentation about publishing says:

1. Tag the newest commit with a semver-looking version.
2. Push the tag to this public repo.
3. Wait an hour. The registry knows about this public repo and will find the tag by itself.

Ooh that sounded easy enough. Tried that just now 🤞

Btw @SimonN - would you like to take this over if I just gave you access so you can fix whatever you need to and push and merge and all that jazz? :p I do not see myself getting into this anytime soon given my current status/situation!

It looks like the dub package registry updater hasn't found the tag yet. Package optional on the registry is still at v1.3.0.

From looking at your past releases, a lightweight tag should be enough. The updater saw the v1.3.0 lightweight tag from 4 years ago, therefore it should see your v1.3.1 lightweight tag, too.

I asked in the D IRC channel (#d on Libera). Insights:

• The updater can be slow. You, as package maintainer, can force the registry to update. Log into the dub registry, then go to the maintainer page of optional on dub ("manage package"), and have the registry scan sooner.
• It's not necessary to "create a release from tag" on Github. Pushing a tag should have been sufficient.
• It's not clear whether lightweight tags or annotated tags are required, but I still believe that lightweight tags are enough because it worked 4 years ago with the lightweight tag.

Thanks for your trust and the offer of successorship! That would be my first dub package to maintain. I'll sleep over it a few days, and come back to you with an answer.

Ah of course, log in :D Got in and clicked the button, seems like it updated?

And yeah sure! just let me know whenever!

Yes, that was it; the package registry has the 1.3.1 now. Thanks! (The dub site happens to be down today, but I saw the 1.3.1 correctly there earlier.)

I've decided: Yes, I'm happy to become maintainer of the optional package. I have an active client project (Lix) that uses optional, therefore I see the occasional breakage in optional early. I've submitted PRs to optional like this one, and yesterday, I've dug into the details of the dub packaging/versioning process.

I don't have an account on the dub package registry, but I'll be busy this weekend. I'll open an account there in 0-3 weeks.

I haven't published API documentation web pages yet. I'm interested in better type/functor/monad support in D itself, but I won't invest much time to push such an issue with D directly.

Awesome! I've added you to this repo now, so I think you can do whatever you want. If there're any issues then feel free to just ping back here. Let me know if I have to do anything in DUB to "permit" the transfer there or anything so you can just release whenever you want to too!

I guess if it's just about pushing a tag, the opening account account is not strictly necessary, but it would be convenient to click the buttons I had to click yesterday or whatever to force pickup a tag release :D

All right, thanks!

I'll let you know when I make an account for the dub package registry.