Steps to release a new version

Prerequisites

• Be a core team member (currently all the core members are from SFU-DB lab).
• A Github account that has the permission to release on this repo.
• The username and password to PyPI for wheel uploading.
• Just for command running.
• python-semantic-release for changelog generation.
• Others (by default you should already have: Linux, poetry, ...)

Steps

• Keep your local workspace clean, ensure everything is already committed.
• Decide the release type: it should be any of major, minor or patch. Take a look at the standard for rules.
• Run command just release <release type> and confirm.
• Go to the release page and edit the release note draft.
• Release the release note.
• Run poetry publish, fill in the username and password for publishing the library to PyPI.