[tauruslib-devel] Coming release of Taurus (Jun21)

[Carlos Pascual-I. <cpa...@ce...>]

Hi,

You are probably aware that we didn't do a Jan21 release of taurus and 
instead, we only did a couple of hotfix releases (4.7.1 and 4.7.1.1). 
Now it is time to get moving...

The idea [1] for the Jan21 milestone was to make it the last one of the 
4.x series (i.e., to provide a last release with Python2 and Qt4 support 
and immediately drop them).

Since the amount of available person-power for working on taurus is at a 
minimum (see [2]), I narrowed the scope of the Jan21 Milestone (and I 
renamed it as Jun21[3]). Unless someone suggests to add something extra 
to this Milestone, I'll directly start a release branch and start with 
the tests (debian10+windows-conda unless someone else suggests another).

Once this is done, I intend to devote some time to get a taurus 5.0 
version ready which should be 100% compatible with Jun21 release except 
that py2 and Qt4 would not be supported (i.e. deprecations existing in 
the 4.x series will not be enforced in 5.0)

If you have any comment, suggestion, or want to offer help, please let 
me know.

Cheers!

Carlos


Links:

[1] https://gitlab.com/taurus-org/taurus/-/issues/1041

[2] https://gitlab.com/taurus-org/taurus/-/issues/1140

[3] https://gitlab.com/taurus-org/taurus/-/milestones/16


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