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Release v2.0.0

Open leouieda opened this issue 4 years ago • 0 comments

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Version number v2.0.0
Target date YYYY/MM/DD
Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.XXXXXXX

This issue is to track progress and deprecations for the upcoming 2.0.0 release. We'll be breaking some API compatibilities with this one. See the issues in the 2.0 milestone

To make the breaking changes, we'll be using a 2.0-dev branch that will be merged into master once we're ready for the release.

Draft a Zenodo archive (to be done by a manager on Zenodo)

  • [ ] Go to the Zenodo entry for this project (find the link to the latest Zenodo release on the README.md file)
  • [ ] Create a "New version" of it.
  • [ ] Delete all existing files
  • [ ] Copy the reserved DOI to this issue
  • [ ] Update release date
  • [ ] Update version number (following Semantic Versioning) with a leading v (v1.5.7)
  • [ ] Add as authors any new contributors who have added themselves to AUTHORS.md
  • [ ] Review author order to make sure it follows the guidelines on our Authorship Guide
  • [ ] Save the release draft

Update the changelog

  • [ ] Generate a list of commits between the last release tag and now: git log HEAD...v1.2.3 > changes.rst
  • [ ] Edit the list to remove any trivial changes (updates by the bot, CI updates, etc).
  • [ ] Organize the list into categories (breaking changes, deprecations, bug fixes, new features, maintenance, documentation).
  • [ ] Add a list of people who contributed to the release: git shortlog HEAD...v1.2.3 -sne
  • [ ] Add the release date and Zenodo DOI badge to the top
  • [ ] Replace the PR numbers with links: sed --in-place "s,#\([0-9]\+\),\`#\1 <https://github.com/fatiando/PROJECT/pull/\1>\`__,g" changes.rst
  • [ ] Copy the changes to doc/changes.rst
  • [ ] Make a Markdown copy of the changelog: pandoc -s changes.rst -o changes.md --wrap=none
  • [ ] Add a link to the new release version documentation in README.rst
  • [ ] Build and serve the docs locally with make -C doc all serve to check if the changelog looks well
  • [ ] Open a PR to update the changelog
  • [ ] Merge the PR

Make a release

After the changelog PR is merged:

  • [ ] Draft a new release on GitHub
  • [ ] The tag and release name should be a version number (following Semantic Versioning) with a leading v (v1.5.7)
  • [ ] Fill the release description with a Markdown version of the latest changelog entry (including the DOI badge)
  • [ ] Publish the release

Publish to Zenodo

  • [ ] Upload the zip archive from the GitHub release to Zenodo
  • [ ] Double check all information (date, authors, version)
  • [ ] Publish the new version on Zenodo

Conda-forge package

A PR should be opened automatically on the project feedstock repository.

  • [ ] Add/remove/update any dependencies that have changed in meta.yaml
  • [ ] If dropping/adding support for Python/numpy versions, make sure the correct version restrictions are applied in meta.yaml
  • [ ] Merge the PR

leouieda avatar Nov 03 '21 10:11 leouieda