Re: Release 0.20

Dear Günter,

> While I favour keeping "auto_encode" over a seprate `publish_bytes()`
> function, I left the decision about the end state of this transition open...

A decision to make later, and one that doesn't block the 0.20 release!

> This will become easier with type annotations in the source.

> (How about starting with annotating "core.py". I only postponed this because
> I don't know whether a partially type-hinted module will interfere with the
> present 3rd-party type hint stubs.)

I have a patch for adding type hints to Docutils, but wanted to wait
until releasing Docutils 0.20 so as not to add major new changes to
the repository.

>> If you have time, perhaps you could commit your patch (or the latest
>> version thereof), and we could make progress from there? As far as I
>> can tell, the only unresolved point at the moment ahead of releasing
>> Docutils 0.20 is the future of ``publish_bytes``.

> This is now [r9336].
> A patch removing `publish_bytes` waits in a branch in my local Git repo.

I think to un-block the release we should apply the patch removing
``publish_bytes``.

Thanks,
Adam