[Feature]: Set up conda forge release channel

[lee1043]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

Setting up conda forge release channel is needed

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[lee1043]

@tomvothecoder would you be able to help on this?

[tomvothecoder]

There are a few things that need to be addressed before being able to release this package on Anaconda/conda-forge:

• [ ] global-land-mask should be distributed on Anaconda/conda-forge too.
  • Currently this package is only available on pip. From my understanding, the dependencies of an Anaconda package should be available on Anaconda. I didn't find a way to reference pip packages in an Anaconda package recipe (source). There is a way to reference a dependency's source code or wheel, but it is not recommended (source).
  • You can either (1) open up an issue on the repo and hope the maintainer addresses it (unlikely) or (2) try to stage the recipe on conda-forge directly (source). I don't you need to be a maintainer of the source repo to stage a new recipe.
• [ ] In dev.yml, move global-land-mask dependency to main section and remove pip section.
• [ ] Release a software version on GitHub (e.g,. v0.1.0)

[tomvothecoder]

If you or somebody else can handle those items, I'll be able to move forward with this GH issue.