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Release process
I was expecting there to be a February release but looks like there wasn't one. I am curious about the release cadence of fsspec, I don't see a document in the repo outlining the release process.
There are number of fixes that have been merged but yet to be released that I am waiting on. It would be nice if there was some guidance on expectation of how often releases are. Thanks
You are right that we could be clearer, but we generally release roughly once a month. There will be one coming soon, as maintainer time allows.
Thanks for the update. If there is anything I can help with happy to draft or review a release info document.
We might consider doing nightly builds automatically (they will be marked as pre-releases not to interefere with proper releases). But that depends on https://github.com/fsspec/community/issues/6 to formalize release process, as current manual normal releases are clearly a no-go and don't scale at all putting more pressure on @martindurant specifically. Been meaning to do that myself, but can't find time for it for now 🙁 hopefully soon.
There are a couple of complicating factors:
- we do not maintain the release notes until release time. We could auto-generate this if we were careful about merge messages, or require PR submitters to add an entry before we consider a merge. I don't think the current log is very useful
- fsspec/s3fs/gcsfs are always released together with the same version tag, and in that order (even if one of them has no changes). adlfs often follows suit.