[Biopython-dev] 1.57 release plans

[Peter Cock]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Brad Chapman wrote:
> Peter;
>
>> > What is our timeline for 1.57?
>
>> I was hoping for some more comments on the tutorial, and ideally fix
>> http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython/2011-March/007130.html
>> but other than that we're good to go. Do you want to do the honours?
>
> For your fastq file examples, we could use the EBI short read
> archive, which is staying around for a while longer:
>
> ftp://ftp.sra.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/fastq/ERR000/ERR000001/

Good plan - why didn't I think of that the other night when I was
looking at this? I may even be able to find the equivalent files to
the ones we used to use from the NCBI SRA. I'll try and sort
that today or tomorrow...

> I can do on the release, but probably later this week or over the
> weekend.

Cool. That suits me. You can trigger builds on the buildbot
manually (if you know the password...) and/or wait for the
nightly scheduled build. That is quite handy for a final test
just before tagging the repository and building the archives.
Also useful if you don't have a suitable Windows machine
handy - I can always do the Windows installers a day later
(well, not on weekends).

> How do you normally get together the list of contributors?
> That, and the list of new features, are the major two things
> I'm not on top off.

I try to make sure that the NEWS file is kept up to date as
we go along, so the "release announcement" is a prettified
version of that really. You can take a bit more space to talk
about new stuff, and really big bits of new code could even
warrant their blog post on news.open-bio.org to help raise
awareness. As usual circulating a draft release statement on
the dev list is a good way to avoid missing anything really
obvious :)

Thanks,

Peter