[Biopython-dev] Biopython 1.63 release

[Lenna Peterson]

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>wrote:

> 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
>
>

Is the `open()` to `with open()` conversion a priority for this release? If
so, I can carve out some hours to punch that out. Big whitespace changes to
lots of files.

Cheers,

Lenna