> With this in mind, I'm going to suggest that we feature freeze and focus on 
> release blockers. We shouldn't be dogmatic (e.g. I note that I have already 
> agreed to review/merge David Koes mega PR) but we should try to avoid making 
> the documentation out-of-date during the release procedure. If everything 
> gets super automated, it will not be difficult to do another point release in 
> 3 or 6 months so no-one should panic that their work will have to wait for 
> another 3 years.

This point is critical. While much of the work in 3.0 by Noel involved 
API-breaking changes, we have a large number of new contributions in the works 
- and should start to build a 6 month release schedule. I don't advocate moving 
to dated versions, but September / October and March / April are often good 
months.

> So if people want to help we will need testers for the conda packages, the 
> snap packages, the Python binaries, etc., etc. Does it build on Ubuntu? Does 
> it build on Arch? Help updating the documentation would be much appreciated - 
> you can do this directly on the github repo. If you want to help but don't 
> know how/where, just email the list - there are many things that we would do 
> if we had more time, so don't hold back.

Two things that people can help work on:
- Tips for migrating Python and C++ code 
(https://open-babel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/UseTheLibrary/migration.html 
<https://open-babel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/UseTheLibrary/migration.html>)
- Release documentation 
(https://open-babel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ReleaseNotes/ob300.html 
<https://open-babel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ReleaseNotes/ob300.html>)

In particular, if you've migrated code or scripts and encountered things, 
please add comments or examples to the migration list.

If you've added something that should be a "headline" component of the release 
notes (e.g., the new fragment-based 3D coordinate generation) those would be 
good to highlight too.

The docs are on GitHub;
https://github.com/openbabel/documentation 
<https://github.com/openbabel/documentation>

-Geoff
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