[Biopython-dev] Biopython 1.68 plans (mid August?)

[Peter Cock]

Dear Biopythoneers,

The NCBI plan to switch to HTTPS on 1 September 2016, so it
would be good to get a new Biopython release out before that
with the changes to use HTTPS by default (which we know
works).

To that end, I would like us to do the Biopython 1.68 release
this month (August), perhaps aiming for next week?

Christian - we talked briefly about this at BOSC 2016 - but
would you be willing to try to work though the currently release
instructions (as far as possible without pushing any changes
to GitHub or PyPI) to help pin point what I have left unclear
with the recent website changes?

http://biopython.org/wiki/Building_a_release

Ben - would you be able to build the Windows installers
again please?

Bow - are you ready to remove the experimental warning
from Bio.SearchIO? Or at least, most of it - I know you have
some changes in mind for the Exonerate parser:
https://github.com/biopython/biopython/pull/815

Everyone - is there anything urgent we need to review and
merge? What am I overlooking? There are lots of pull
requests we could merge, and some are close to ready.

Thanks,

Peter