releasing v0.8.0 -- checklist

[wyli]

Tentative date: 25/Nov.

Release a candidate version

• Tag and release PYPI version [X.Y.Z]rc[K] following the contributing guide.
• Make sure all CI pipelines pass.
• Check the PyPI page
• Test pip install monai==[X.Y.Z]rc[K] and run a few MONAI modules locally
• Test all installation commands mentioned in the installation guide and the primary README.
• remove any promised deprecated functionality

Quality assurance for the relevant repos
The new PyPI release candidate should be checked against all the relevant repositories under Project-MONAI, for example, the tutorials repo

• Manually run all Jupyter notebooks, replace pip install monai with pip install monai==[X.Y.Z]rc[K].

Prepare documentation

• Draft a release note on GitHub. (including details about the breaking changes)
• Draft a release note with a pull request to modify the CHANGELOG (update changelog for v0.8.0 #3382).
• Create a pull request to highlight the features of the upcoming release, for example, in docs/source/highlights.md (3365 update highlight 0.8 #3381).
• Create a pull request to update the primary README.md (fixes readme links #3380).
• Update the monai.io website (https://github.com/Project-MONAI/project-monai.github.io).
• Check all the URLs in https://monai.io
• Check all the URLs in https://docs.monai.io.

Release a milestone version

• Tag and release PyPI version [X.Y.Z] following the contributing guide.
• Publish the release note on GitHub.
• Revisit the GitHub project tab Update https://github.com/Project-MONAI/MONAI/projects.
• Update the weekly-preview tagging
  

  MONAI/.github/workflows/weekly-preview.yml

  Line 36 in b86d751

  git tag "0.8.dev${YEAR_WEEK}"

[wyli]

website update addressed by Project-MONAI/project-monai.github.io#25, please file separate tickets for any issues/requests.