Make a release to work with JupyterHub 3+

[consideRatio]

It seems we need to get a release out (newer than 1.2.0) to work with JupyterHub 3+, which work currently but not in the latest 1.2.0 release.

• This was the conclusion of SlurmSpawner behaviors are different if installed through pip compared to installed locally #266

[mehalter]

I can also confirm that it seems to be working on main and looking forward to a new release to be able to update JupyterHub on a production cluster! Thanks so much for your hard work here 🥳

[FilipeMaia]

I would urge a quick new release. Having a hard-to-debug failure with the currently released version, when the fix is already merged for several months is not a good experience.

[krokicki]

I just spent four extremely frustrating hours trying to debug this. After finally giving up, I came to log an issue here and stumbled upon this. If the release isn't imminent, and it doesn't seem to be, please consider updating the README to reflect the fact that you have to install from the repo for the time being.

I made PR #290 for adding this warning to the README, to save others the trouble I just went through.

[leosala]

having an updated release would be very useful, we rely on this for multiple Hub instances. @mbmilligan any chance to have this in the next future? How can we help?

[basnijholt]

Any reason to postpone making a release?

Ran into an issue as well, until I realized one needs to install the latest main branch.

[aktech]

@consideRatio @mbmilligan @rkdarst Is there anything I can do to help with the release? We use batchspawner for https://github.com/nebari-dev/nebari-slurm

[consideRatio]

Only @mbmilligan has credentials to push a release to PyPI =/

@mbmilligan this could be addressed by #269

[basnijholt]

@mbmilligan could you add the other maintainers to PyPI?

If there is no activity soon I might fork and publish under batchspawner2 (but rather not 🥲).

[jjanzenn]

I'm also relying on batchspawner for a project I'm working on and ran into problems when upgrading JupyterHub. Is there any timeline for when we could expect a new release @mbmilligan?

[basnijholt]

@consideRatio perhaps you can make a tag and we can just release batchspawner on conda-forge?