releasing v0.7.0 -- checklist

[wyli]

Tentative date: 27/Sept

Release a candidate version

• Tag and release PYPI version [X.Y.Z]rc[K] following the contributing guide.
• Make sure all CI pipelines pass.
• Check the PyPI page
• Test pip install monai==[X.Y.Z]rc[K] and run a few MONAI modules locally
• Test all installation commands mentioned in the installation guide and the primary README.
• remove any promised deprecated functionality (2914 remove the deprecated API for v0.7 #2981)

Quality assurance for the relevant repos
The new PyPI release candidate should be checked against all the relevant repositories under Project-MONAI, for example, the tutorials repo

• Manually run all Jupyter notebooks, replace pip install monai with pip install monai==[X.Y.Z]rc[K].

Prepare documentation

• Draft a release note on GitHub. (including details about the breaking changes)
• Draft a release note with a pull request to modify the CHANGELOG (2914 release note, and what's new for v0.7 #2992).
• Create a pull request to highlight the features of the upcoming release, for example, in docs/source/highlights.md.
• Create a pull request to update the primary README.md.
• Update the monai.io website (https://github.com/Project-MONAI/project-monai.github.io).
• Check all the URLs in https://monai.io
• Check all the URLs in https://docs.monai.io.

Release a milestone version

• Tag and release PyPI version [X.Y.Z] following the contributing guide.
• Publish the release note on GitHub.
• Revisit the GitHub project tab Update https://github.com/Project-MONAI/MONAI/projects.
• Update the weekly-preview tagging
  

  MONAI/.github/workflows/weekly-preview.yml

  Line 36 in 7f3050a

  git tag "0.7.dev${YEAR_WEEK}"

[rijobro]

@wyli I'm guessing you use the same template before each release? Perhaps for the future we should add "remove any promised deprecated functionality". As in, if we said we'd delete something in 1.0, then we need to make sure that it's deleted when we say it will be.

Or do we have some mechanism for ensuring this?

[wyli]

thanks that's a very good point @rijobro, I've updated the template https://github.com/Project-MONAI/MONAI/wiki/Release-checklist