[7.4.0] Release Checklist

We would like to ship the `on_trait_change` to `observe` changes to end users.

Target date: Feb 2, 2022

Release by Corran Webster

Release blockers
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- [x] #476 (want to start pushing these downstream to TraitsUI and Enable)
- [x] #1061
- [x] #1062
- [x] #1063
- [x] #1067

Pre-release
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- [x] Backport PRs that have been merged to master to the maintenance branch. Use the "need backport ..." tag if there is one (but don't rely 100% on it)
- [x] Verify that no other open issue needs to be addressed before the release.
- [x] Test against other ETS packages and other ETS-using projects
- [x] Check MANIFEST, requirements, changelog are still up to date.
- [x] Test building the documentation

Release
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- [x] Create branch `release/` from `maint/` branch.
- [x] Set release to ``, and set `IS_RELEASED` is true; commit
- [x] Install from source distribution and run tests again
- [x] Open a PR against `maint/` with this being the last commit so that CI is built on the release commit
- [x] Once CI is done building merge PR
- [x] Bump the micro version number i.e. `` and set `IS_RELEASED` to false; commit.
- [x] Open and then merge a separate PR against `maint/`
- [x] From the commit at which `IS_RELEASED` is true and version is ``, tag (annotated!) `git tag -a -m "Release " `
- [x] Push the tag `git push origin `
- [x] Make PR targeting `gh-pages` branch: Generate documentation and copy the content to the branch. Verify that the resulting index.html looks good.
- [x] Upload to PyPI
- [x] Test the PyPI package

Post-release
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- [x] Package update for `enthought/free` repository (for EDM)
- [x] Backport release note and change log to master, and possibly `maint/` branch.
- [x] Update GitHub Release pages https://github.com/enthought/pyface/releases
- [ ] Announcement (e.g. Google Group)