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 do a release on this repo.
• The username and password to PyPI for wheel uploading.
• Semantic release.
• The Github command-line tool.
• Development tools

Steps

• Keep your local workspace clean, ensure everything is already committed / pulled. Note: the release starts from the local develop branch.
• 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-note to check the release note.
• Run command just release <release type> and confirm.
• Go to the release page and edit the release note draft.
• Publish the release note.
• Run poetry publish, fill in the username and password for publishing the library to PyPI.
• Update the conda recipe (Talk to @dovahcrow if you are first time doing it).