1.5.0 release checklist

[johnkerl]

Following https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA/wiki/Branches-and-releases, and any additional hmm moments

• Post in the common Slack channel that you want to do a release
• Validate the version number and wait for two people to agree
• Considering the scope of changes in the release, a release candidate (e.g. i.j.k-rc0) might be required (we already have)
• Pre-merge CI in the TileDB-SOMA repo is green
• Post-merge CI in the TileDB-SOMA repo is green
  • Red R CI since Saturday 2023-11-04 [r/ci] Red R CI since Saturday 2023-11-04 #1875
  • Python CI sometimes (not always) timing out after 6 hours in CI -- when it happens, usually Python 3.11 only -- see also [ci/python] Excess pytest duration #1866
• Core 2.17.4 Conda is available https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/tiledb/labels
• TileDB-Py 0.23.4 Conda is available https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/tiledb-py/labels
• TileDB-R 0.21.3 Conda is available https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/r-tiledb/labels
• Check all main PRs to be included are merged, and have been backported: git pull on main and release-1.5, then git diff -r release-1.5 -r main
• Conda pre-check PR has green CI
  • tiledbsoma 1.5.0 release check TileDB-Inc/tiledbsoma-feedstock#55
  • But since we've gotten some bugfix PRs for weekend events, there are now more merges since that PR 55 -- we'll need another before tagging 1.5.0 (after all other open blocks-1.5 PRs are resolved) -- tiledbsoma 1.5.0 pre-check redux TileDB-Inc/tiledbsoma-feedstock#56
• Sandbox-evaluate soma-release-checks-py-prod cloud notebook without errors (note cloud-REST already has core 2.17.4)
• Sandbox-evaluate soma-release-checks-r-prod cloud notebook without errors (note cloud-REST already has core 2.17.4 -- [r] Fix query conditions on enumerated columns #1867
  • Generalize query condition parsing to non-INT32 index columns TileDB-Inc/TileDB-R#614 merged
  • TileDB-R 0.21.3 tagged and available at r-universe
  • TileDB-SOMA PR to depend on TileDB-R 0.21.3 [r] Depend on TileDB-R 0.21.3 #1882
  • TileDB-SOMA validation [r] Unit-test queryability of enumerated columns #1884
• Tag the TileDB-SOMA 1.5.0 release in GitHub
• TileDB-SOMA PyPI artifacts
• TileDB-SOMA r-universe artifacts https://tiledb-inc.r-universe.dev/tiledbsoma
• Conda post-tag PR tiledbsoma 1.5.0 TileDB-Inc/tiledbsoma-feedstock#57

TileDB-Cloud deployment steps are outside the scope of this issue.

See also release-blocking issues:
https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3Ablocks-1.5+sort%3Aupdated-desc