> 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 the documentation out-of-date during the release procedure.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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