[Biopython-dev] Biopython 1.63 release

[Peter Cock]

On Tuesday, November 5, 2013, Tiago Antao wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Unless somebody else wants to step forward, I am thinking in
> volunteering to handle the release of 1.63.
>
> This would be a first and therefore I hope you would all have some
> patience with my inexperience doing this. The upside of it is that,
> having inexperienced hands will allow for a review of the release
> procedure (if something is missing, an inexperienced release manager
> will be more prone to detect it than an experienced one).
>
> I no one steps forward, I will start the ball rolling later today here
> on the list.
>
> Regards,
> Tiago
>

Thanks Tiago - I think this a great idea.

As per the 2to3 thread, I'd like us to do a beta release first -
as an unusually large number of files have been changed
since the last release (as part of getting the code to run on
both Python 2 and 3 without conversion by 2to3 first).

Regards,

Peter