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+from paver.easy import *
+from paver import doctools
+from paver.setuputils import setup
+
+options(
+        sphinx=Bunch(builddir=".build"),
+)
+
+def sphinx_builddir(options):
+    return path("docs") / options.sphinx.builddir / "html"
+
+
+@task
+def clean_docs(options):
+    sphinx_builddir(options).rmtree()
+
+
+@task
+@needs("clean_docs", "paver.doctools.html")
+def html(options):
+    destdir = path("Documentation")
+    destdir.rmtree()
+    builtdocs = sphinx_builddir(options)
+    builtdocs.move(destdir)
+
+
+@task
+@needs("paver.doctools.html")
+def qhtml(options):
+    destdir = path("Documentation")
+    builtdocs = sphinx_builddir(options)
+    sh("rsync -az %s/ %s" % (builtdocs, destdir))
+
+
+@task
+@needs("clean_docs", "paver.doctools.html")
+def ghdocs(options):
+    builtdocs = sphinx_builddir(options)
+    sh("sphinx-to-github", cwd=builtdocs)
+    sh("git checkout gh-pages && \
+            cp -r %s/* .    && \
+            git commit . -m 'Rendered documentation for Github Pages.' && \
+            git push origin gh-pages && \
+            git checkout master" % builtdocs)
+
+
+@task
+@needs("clean_docs", "paver.doctools.html")
+def upload_pypi_docs(options):
+    builtdocs = path("docs") / options.builddir / "html"
+    sh("python setup.py upload_sphinx --upload-dir='%s'" % (builtdocs))
+
+
+@task
+@needs("upload_pypi_docs", "ghdocs")
+def upload_docs(options):
+    pass
+
+
+@task
+def autodoc(options):
+    sh("contrib/release/doc4allmods kombu")
+
+
+@task
+def verifyindex(options):
+    sh("contrib/release/verify-reference-index.sh")
+
+
+@task
+def flakes(options):
+    sh("find kombu -name '*.py' | xargs pyflakes")
+
+
+@task
+def clean_readme(options):
+    path("README").unlink()
+    path("README.rst").unlink()
+
+
+@task
+@needs("clean_readme")
+def readme(options):
+    sh("python contrib/release/sphinx-to-rst.py docs/templates/readme.txt \
+            > README.rst")
+    sh("ln -sf README.rst README")
+
+
+@task
+def bump(options):
+    sh("bump -c kombu")
+
+
+@task
+@cmdopts([
+    ("coverage", "c", "Enable coverage"),
+    ("quick", "q", "Quick test"),
+    ("verbose", "V", "Make more noise"),
+])
+def test(options):
+    cmd = "nosetests"
+    if getattr(options, "coverage", False):
+        cmd += " --with-coverage3"
+    if getattr(options, "quick", False):
+        cmd = "QUICKTEST=1 SKIP_RLIMITS=1 %s" % cmd
+    if getattr(options, "verbose", False):
+        cmd += " --verbosity=2"
+    sh(cmd)
+
+
+@task
+@cmdopts([
+    ("noerror", "E", "Ignore errors"),
+])
+def pep8(options):
+    noerror = getattr(options, "noerror", False)
+    return sh("""find . -name "*.py" | xargs pep8 | perl -nle'\
+            print; $a=1 if $_}{exit($a)'""", ignore_error=noerror)
+
+
+@task
+def removepyc(options):
+    sh("find . -name '*.pyc' | xargs rm")
+
+
+@task
+@needs("removepyc")
+def gitclean(options):
+    sh("git clean -xdn")
+
+
+@task
+@needs("removepyc")
+def gitcleanforce(options):
+    sh("git clean -xdf")
+
+
+@task
+@needs("pep8", "autodoc", "verifyindex", "test", "gitclean")
+def releaseok(options):
+    pass
+
+
+@task
+@needs("releaseok", "removepyc", "upload_docs")
+def release(options):
+    pass