Final edits before release of 0.7.0

NEWS.md

@@ -1,5 +1,18 @@
 # What's New
 
+## Update September 9, 2021
+
+We have a new release [Recommenders 0.7.0](https://github.com/microsoft/recommenders/releases/tag/0.7.0)!
+
+In this, we have changed the names of the folders which contain the source code, so that they are more informative. This implies that you will need to change any import statements that reference the recommenders package. Specifically, the folder `reco_utils` has been renamed to `recommenders` and its subfolders have been renamed according to [issue 1390](https://github.com/microsoft/recommenders/issues/1390).  
+
+The recommenders package now supports three types of environments: [venv](https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html) and [virtualenv](https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/index.html#) with Python 3.6, [conda](https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/glossary.html?highlight=environment#conda-environment) with Python versions 3.6 and 3.7.
+
+We have also added new evaluation metrics: _novelty, serendipity, diversity and coverage_ (see the [evalution notebooks](examples/03_evaluate/README.md)).
+
+Code coverage reports are now generated for every PR, using [Codecov](https://about.codecov.io/).
+
+
 ## Update June 21, 2021
 
 We have a new release [Recommenders 0.6.0](https://github.com/microsoft/recommenders/releases/tag/0.6.0)!

README.md

@@ -2,16 +2,27 @@
 
 [![Documentation Status](https://readthedocs.org/projects/microsoft-recommenders/badge/?version=latest)](https://microsoft-recommenders.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest)
 
-## What's New (June 21, 2021)
+## What's New 
+### (September 9, 2021)
 
-We have a new release [Recommenders 0.6.0](https://github.com/microsoft/recommenders/releases/tag/0.6.0)!
+We have a new release [Recommenders 0.7.0](https://github.com/microsoft/recommenders/releases/tag/0.7.0)!
+We have changed the names of the folders which contain the source code, so that they are more informative. This implies that you will need to change any import statements that reference the recommenders package. Specifically, the folder `reco_utils` has been renamed to `recommenders` and its subfolders have been renamed according to [issue 1390](https://github.com/microsoft/recommenders/issues/1390).  
 
-Recommenders is now on PyPI and can be installed using pip! In addition there are lots of bug fixes and utilities improvements.
+The previous release ([0.6.0](https://github.com/microsoft/recommenders/releases/tag/0.6.0)) is compatible with the old style of naming of modules. 
+
+The recommenders package now supports three types of environments: [venv](https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html) and [virtualenv](https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/index.html#) with Python 3.6, [conda](https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/glossary.html?highlight=environment#conda-environment) with Python versions 3.6 and 3.7.
+
+We have also added new evaluation metrics: _novelty, serendipity, diversity and coverage_ (see the [evalution notebooks](examples/03_evaluate/README.md)).
+
+Code coverage reports are now generated for every PR, using [Codecov](https://about.codecov.io/).
+
+Starting with release 0.6.0, Recommenders has been available on PyPI and can be installed using pip! 
 
 Here you can find the PyPi page: https://pypi.org/project/recommenders/
 
 Here you can find the package documentation: https://microsoft-recommenders.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
 
+
 ## Introduction
 
 This repository contains examples and best practices for building recommendation systems, provided as Jupyter notebooks. The examples detail our learnings on five key tasks:

examples/03_evaluate/README.md

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 # Evaluate
 
-In this directory, a notebook is provided to illustrate evaluating models using various performance measures which can be found in [recommenders](../../recommenders).
+In this directory, notebooks are provided to illustrate evaluating models using various performance measures which can be found in [recommenders](../../recommenders).
 
 | Notebook | Description | 
 | --- | --- | 

examples/03_evaluate/als_movielens_diversity_metrics.ipynb

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  },
  "nbformat": 4,
  "nbformat_minor": 1
-}
+}

recommenders/__init__.py

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 # Licensed under the MIT License.
 
 __title__ = "Microsoft Recommenders"
-__version__ = "0.6.0"
+__version__ = "0.7.0"
 __author__ = "RecoDev Team at Microsoft"
 __license__ = "MIT"
 __copyright__ = "Copyright 2018-present Microsoft Corporation"

tests/ci/azure_pipeline_test/dsvm_linux_template.yml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ parameters:
   type: string
 - name: timeout
   type: number
-  default: 20
+  default: 30
 - name: conda_env
   type: string
 - name: conda_opts