Release v0.4.0

[leouieda]

Zenodo DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6779998

Target date: 2022/06/30

Draft a Zenodo archive (to be done by a manager on Zenodo)

• Go to the Zenodo entry for this project (find the link to the latest Zenodo release on the README.md file)
• Create a "New version" of it.
• Delete all existing files
• Copy the reserved DOI to this issue
• Update release date
• Update version number (make sure there is a leading v, like v1.5.7)
• Add as authors any new contributors who have added themselves to AUTHORS.md in the same order
• Ensure that the first author is "Fatiando a Terra Project" and others are listed alphabetically by last name
• Save the release draft

Update the changelog

• Generate a list of commits between the last release tag and now: git log HEAD...v1.2.3 > changes.rst
• Edit the list to remove any trivial changes (updates by the bot, CI updates, etc).
• Organize the list into categories (breaking changes, deprecations, bug fixes, new features, maintenance, documentation).
• Add a list of people who contributed to the release: git shortlog HEAD...v1.2.3 -sne
• Add the release date and Zenodo DOI badge to the top
• Replace the PR numbers with links: sed --in-place "s,#\([0-9]\+\),\`#\1 <https://github.com/fatiando/PROJECT/pull/\1>\`__,g" changes.rst
• Copy the changes to doc/changes.rst
• Make a Markdown copy of the changelog: pandoc -s changes.rst -o changes.md --wrap=none
• Add a link to the new release version documentation in README.rst and doc/versions.rst (if the file exists).
• Build and serve the docs locally with make -C doc all serve to check if the changelog looks well
• Open a PR to update the changelog
• Merge the PR

Make a release

After the changelog PR is merged:

• Draft a new release on GitHub
• The tag and release name should be a version number (following Semantic Versioning) with a leading v (v1.5.7)
• Fill the release description with a Markdown version of the latest changelog entry (including the DOI badge)
• Publish the release

Publish to Zenodo

• Upload the zip archive from the GitHub release to Zenodo
• Double check all information (date, authors, version)
• Publish the new version on Zenodo

Conda-forge package

A PR should be opened automatically on the project feedstock repository.

• Add/remove/update any dependencies that have changed in meta.yaml
• If dropping/adding support for Python/numpy versions, make sure the correct version restrictions are applied in meta.yaml
• Merge the PR

[leouieda]

Waiting a bit to see if there is any feedback on the new docs. See https://github.com/orgs/fatiando/discussions/58