In an ideal world, any new feature or bug fix in a QGIS plugin is instantly available to all users of the plugin - of course after having passed the quality checks that the testing framework of the plugin put into place.

In reality, publishing a plugin can be a rather manual and stressful process, but it doesn't have to be. In this talk, we will showcase what is needed to publish a plugin and how this is done manually, and how to automate plugin publication using the QGIS Plugin CI - from the commandline as well as using the CI frameworks of GitHub and GitLab.