Release v0.1 - Githubissues

cdeil commented 7 years ago

This is an issue where we can discuss the v0.1 release. For now it's scheduled for Wednesday, July 12, but we can do later if we're not ready by then.

I think the main thing missing is that tile drawing works for PNG / JPEG tiles. @adl1995 - Can you make this a priority for the next days and try to get it to work (or explain how it fails and we'll try to help you make it work).

PS: just now I've asked for hips to be listed as an Astropy-affiliated package https://github.com/astropy/astropy.github.com/pull/171 and I'll add it to the list of packages mentioned at http://www.astropython.org/ to make it easier for users to find this package.

cdeil commented 7 years ago

Should appear at www.astropython.org/packages/hips after moderator approval.

cdeil commented 7 years ago

One more opportunity to promote the package and reason we should put a v0.1 with working color image (PNG / JPEG) drawing together ASAP: https://github.com/mwcraig/astropy-affiliated-numfocus-blog/pull/8

:-)

cdeil commented 7 years ago

I'm planning to do the v0.1 release tomorrow, so that we have time today to land #70 and do some testing.

cdeil commented 7 years ago

We could release v0.1 now, or we could take another few days to fix #79 and implement some usability improvements (#80, #81, #82).

The problem with releasing now is that users will not have a great first experience with our package, and we know how to make it much better. So I'm leaning towards delaying again for a few days.

@adl1995 - Let's discuss this afternoon and see if it's realistic or not that we implement at least some of those four issues within the next days or not.

cdeil commented 7 years ago

I made the v0.1 release:

Git tag: https://github.com/hipspy/hips/releases/tag/v0.1
sdist on PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hips/0.1

cdeil commented 7 years ago

This also worked: http://hips.readthedocs.io/en/v0.1/

This docs build is timing out: http://readthedocs.org/projects/hips/builds/5755348/ I think in the future we might want to run the plot examples from the Sphinx docs independently and just store the PNG in the repo, to get a quicker docs build. But for now, let's just leave as-is, and instead work on improving the draw performance to make it faster.

cdeil commented 7 years ago

Note that I changed to a nicer color image example in the getting started: http://hips.readthedocs.io/en/v0.1/plot_jpg.hires.png

It will fully update when the docs build works again and also browsers often cache old images.

cdeil commented 7 years ago

Release announcement on astropy-dev: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/astropy-dev/tLzhVbgyO6s

I made an entry here, so that people can find it also by searching on this website: http://www.astropython.org/packages/hips/

For v0.2, if it works much better, we could announce more widely, e.g. also on the general "Python for Astronomy" mailing list.

hipspy / hips

Release v0.1 #61