Time for a new release?

[jpivarski]

The last release was v1.0.0 in February.

Since then, there have been a lot of pre-commit, CI, etc. auto-updates, but one substantive change: #348, which updates the minimum Numba version. It would be better to not have conflicting versions of Numba.

Oh, actually, a new release should probably wait for @agoose77's #347, which adds another long-requested feature: ak.sum on vectors would sum properly in all coordinate systems (instead of giving the wrong result in old versions of Awkward and an exception in recent versions of Awkward).

Soon after that, you might want to be thinking of version 1.1.0, since a dependency version threshold changed.

[jpivarski]

@Saransh-cpp and @henryiii, I think it would be good to do a 1.1.0 release of Vector now or soon. The two new features are:

1. Uses Numba's isclose implementation, rather than overlaying one on top of Numba (which is dangerous, now that Numba defines it).
2. Overloads ak.sum (and ak.count and ak.count_nonzero) for vectors, which is a long-requested feature.

Both of these require new minimal Numba and Awkward thresholds (and both are optional dependencies). Since the dependency thresholds have changed, I think that a new minor version would make more sense.

[Saransh-cpp]

Changelog updated. Should be good to go! I can make the release if there are no blockers.

[henryiii]

Let's switch to trusted publisher releases, I'm switching on next release for every package that gets released.

Did we decide to bump the required Python version? Don't remember.

[henryiii]

#354

[Saransh-cpp]

Did we decide to bump the required Python version? Don't remember.

I'm not sure as well. Maybe, @jpivarski can confirm this. The required version right now is 3.7 (but 3.8 for numba).

[Saransh-cpp]

The new release is up - https://github.com/scikit-hep/vector/releases/tag/v1.1.0!