7.4 release schedule (subscribe to help or for updates)

[Carreau]

This is the release check list for 7.4 release. It is quite a bit of work.
There are some task that need to be done by core-dev, but many task that could be done by contributor to help. Task are not necessarily ordered and some can be done before others.

Subscribe if you want to help I'll update the issue as I'm working toward release. I usually attempt to do monthly release between 20 and 28 when I have time. The more help I get, the more probable the releases are :-)

• Write what's new and round up issues. Make sure all closed issues/PR are correctly tagged .
• make the release and pushed 7.4 on GitHub (Needs Core-dev), remember to sign it. i.e follow instructions there.
• uploaded to PyPI (Needs Core-dev)
• update read the docs stable tag : automatic, stable is always the latest tag.
• Help Welcomed: Update the ipython website (https://github.com/ipython/ipython-website), see for example ipython/ipython-website@9c021b5 and do the same to annouce the release and release date of 7.4
• Help Welcomed: Update the wikipedia page to point to latest release and its date.
• Help Welcomed, should be automatic: Update conda forge feedstock (https://github.com/conda-forge/ipython-feedstock) with new version number and SHA-hash.
• Help Welcomed: Make an announcement on the mailing list.
• Help Welcomed: Make an announce on Discourse (example : https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/release-of-ipython-7-2/226, https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/release-of-ipython-7-3/409)
• Help Welcomed: Make an announce on Twitter (need SO with access to twitter account) (example https://twitter.com/Mbussonn/status/1097617783620198400) (https://twitter.com/akshayparopkari/status/1108848474806579200)

I'm happy to delegate anything marked Help Welcomed to someone who want to help contribute to IPython and want to engage. I'm happy to details the subtasks more for clarification.

Previous release tasks: #11571

[ppmfloss]

I can help on a few Help Welcomed sub-tasks like

• Help Welcomed: Update the ipython website
• Help Welcomed: Update the wikipedia page to point to latest release and its date.

[akshayparopkari]

I am interested and happy to help 👍

[LucianaMarques]

I can also help!

@ppmfloss I would like to work on the website, would you mind to work on the wikipedia instead, or to divide this task?

[Carreau]

Thanks all for pitching in,

I'll try to release around Friday Feb 22. @akshayparopkari is not too far from my office so we can see if I can get him to do the release.

Side note on this repo you should have the possibility to apply some tags to issues without having commit rights like so:

@meeseeksdev tag "help wanted"

If you like more permissions, just ask and I can give you the ability to close issue, add any tags, remove any tags....

[LucianaMarques]

@Carreau did you mean us that want to contribute or only @akshayparopkari needs to have these permissions?

I tested now on #11621 and it didn't work.

[Carreau]

By default permissions are a bit limited you can't tag everything, but now you (@LucianaMarques) should be able to tag everything. See (https://github.com/ipython/ipython/blob/master/.meeseeksdev.yml)

If there are things you can't do let me know and I'll edit .meeseeksdev.yml) to give you (anyone that asks) those permissions.

[ppmfloss]

@ppmfloss I would like to work on the website, would you mind to work on the wikipedia instead, or to divide this task?

Sure, no problem. You can work on the website. I will help on other tasks.

[happyconcepts]

Started a PR for you, for the website update... greetings!

ipython/ipython-website#145

[Carreau]

I'll try to release around Friday Feb 22.

I meant March.... as I just did a release a few days ago.

[Carreau]

@happyconcepts thanks for the PR and appologies for the confusion.

[happyconcepts]

Ah no worries, patience is a virtue.

[Carreau]

I'm thinking of starting t do the release today, maybe finish it, if not, I'll finish the release tomorrow.

@akshayparopkari is not too far from me, so we'll do some of the work locally (mostly things that needs my credentials).

[Carreau]

I made sure that every merged or closed PR has a milestone. That is to say this list is now empty.

Every closed issues from 2019 onward should also now have a milestone on when it was closed. This list should have no issues from 2019.

[Carreau]

@akshayparopkari just pushed 7.4 commit, starting the release process.

[Carreau]

Master branch is back onto a developement branch (7.5.0.dev), and IPython 7.4 is now on PyPI.

[Carreau]

$ shasum -a 256 dist/*
f5102c1cd67e399ec8ea66bcebe6e3968ea25a8977e53f012963e5affeb1fe38  dist/ipython-7.4.0-py3-none-any.whl
b038baa489c38f6d853a3cfc4c635b0cda66f2864d136fe8f40c1a6e334e2a6b  dist/ipython-7.4.0.tar.gz

[Carreau]

Here is the thread to help for 7.5 #11657 due in about a month !

[Carreau]

Thanks Kiwi128 on wikipedia for updating the release there; we are not sure if you are a person or a bot.

[gpotter2]

See ipython/ipython-website#147

I find it interesting that so many people reached out, but never got to do anything. It's the same issue on the Roadmap of "contributions wanted" issues we made a while ago for Scapy: people register issues but never actually do anything.. :(