Automate releases/changelog

[yarikoptic]

even if I've heard about it, didn't "register", but it seems to be quite powerful and flexible: https://github.com/intuit/auto
(was mentioned in physiopy/phys2bids#311 ;)

Unfortunately I have not found mentioning of a plugin for automagic publishing to pypi but it is trivial to do so could be just baked into the corresponding workflow I guess. I did not dare to suggest yet to datalad folks since some agreement was reached at some point to "not bother" (apparently I did click "Save" instead of "Cancel" ;) datalad/datalad#4999), so would be nice to start here, gain some experience and then "transfer" to other projects if seem beneficial.

We should look into automating

• changelog composition
• release to pypi:
  • conda-forge will pick up by itself and send a PR, alternatively/ideally in the long run -- we could of cause mint a PR, wait for it to finish and report back if all green and when we merge here, merge also that PR against conda-forge -- full automation!!!
• later:
  • release for debian as: build source package (so I could download, re-review, sign locally and upload to debian proper) + backports for neurodebian (probably can just automate)
  • anything else?

[jwodder]

@yarikoptic I've continued working on the proof-of-concept repo I mentioned here, and it now automatically publishes to PyPI whenever a new release is created. (You're a repo collaborator; feel free to try it out.) Should I create a PR to apply the config to dandi-cli now?

[yarikoptic]

GREAT, Thank you @jwodder ! Give us (may be @satra would find some time to check it out as well) some time (hours/few days) to try/see that proof-of-concept first before applying it here.

[satra]

go for it.

[yarikoptic]

done