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

[Christian Brueffer]

Hi Peter,

certainly, I'll have a look at the release instructions.

Cheers,

Chris


On 2016-08-11 11:14, Peter Cock wrote:
> 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
>