7.7 release schedule (subscribe to help or for updates)

[Carreau]

Same as previous 7.6

This is the release check list for 7.7 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 30 when I have time. The more help I get, the more probable the releases are :-);

• Help Welcomed: Write what's new and round up issues. Make sure all closed issues/PR are correctly tagged .
  • add special thanks to @gpotter2 who finished the 7.4 and 7.5 tasks :-)
• make the release and pushed 7.7 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 7.6
• 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)

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: #11657

[Carreau]

3pm, last friday of the month, starting release.

[Carreau]

$ shasum -a 256 dist/*
537cd0176ff6abd06ef3e23f2d0c4c2c8a4d9277b7451544c6cbf56d1c79a83d  dist/ipython-7.7.0-py3-none-any.whl
1d3a1692921e932751bc1a1f7bb96dc38671eeefdc66ed33ee4cbc57e92a410e  dist/ipython-7.7.0.tar.gz

[Carreau]

On PyPI.