[Biopython-dev] Preparing for Biopython 1.67

[Peter Cock]

The blog post is live, let me know if there are any typos:

https://news.open-bio.org/2016/06/08/biopython-1-67-released/

Tweeted:

https://twitter.com/Biopython/status/740599642920980480

Peter

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've done the 32bit Windows installers for the older versions of
> Python, and they and the source releases are live via:
>
> http://biopython.org/wiki/Download
>
> Ben - could you do the 32bit Windows installers for Python 3.5 again
> please? Getting them to me by email is fine, or you can try forking the
> DIST repository and doing it via a pull request if that seems easier:
>
> https://github.com/biopython/DIST
>
> Still to do: Release announcement for emailing and the OBF blog:
> Would anyone volunteer to draft this while I have dinner?
>
> https://news.open-bio.org/category/obf-projects/biopython/
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
>
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> This is live on PyPI now:
>>
>> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/biopython/
>>
>> If anyone could test that now for any last minute issues, please
>> do so.
>>
>> I still need to do the Windows installers and our own download page,
>> then the release announcement for emailing and the OBF blog.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Another update, I've sorted out most of the warnings from the
>>> test suite, although there are some open issues here:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/issues/838
>>> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/issues/845
>>>
>>> For reasons unknown, the BioSQL SQLite tests are now regularly
>>> failing under Python 2.6 on my old Windows XP machine, e.g.
>>>
>>> http://testing.open-bio.org/biopython/builders/Windows%20XP%20-%20Python%202.6/builds/657/steps/shell/logs/stdio
>>>
>>> This turned out to be unrelated to the recent minor changes to
>>> how the BioSQL tests are configured - even a clean re-install of
>>> Biopython 1.66 fails - and is frustratingly random. I'm giving up
>>> on this - there is probably a handle leak somewhere but since
>>> this seems to be Python 2.6 specific so it does not seem to be
>>> that important.
>>>
>>> I'm going to try to do the release this afternoon - so please
>>> don't commit anything to the master branch for the time
>>> being.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello again,
>>>>
>>>> That time plan failed due to the sudden need to do the website migration.
>>>>
>>>> However, if you've been watching the commits on GitHub you might
>>>> have guessed from things like cleaning up the warnings from the test
>>>> suite, recently I've been focusing on getting ready for Biopython 1.67.
>>>>
>>>> It may be tempting fate, but I hope to do the release next week -
>>>> and in the process update the instructions where needed due to
>>>> the website move to GitHub pages:
>>>>
>>>> http://biopython.org/wiki/Building_a_release
>>>>
>>>> On a related note, does anyone have any thoughts on how we
>>>> have been tagging the releases so far in git? i.e. annotated tags
>>>> versus the currently used "lightweight tags", see:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/biopython/biopython.github.io/issues/56
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Peter