Release Steps

Tests:

• Run smodels tests
• Run binder notebooks
• Run recipes notebooks

Database:

• Fix database
• Merge database:develop to main
• Tag smodels-database:main
• Produce database tarball (smodels-utils/distribution/createTarballs.py)
• Update smodels-database-release
• Publish pickle files with and without fastlim (smodels-utils/bin/publishDatabasePickle.py)

SModelS:

• Update version file

• Update release note (release date)

• Merge smodels develop to main

• Run tests in main

• Run notebooks in main

• Remove unittests

• Tag smodels:main

• Web pages:

• Create github pre-release for smodels

• Check smodels pre-release (download tarball from github)

• Create github pre-release for smodels-database-release

• Check smodels-database pre-release (download tarball)

• Promote pre-release -> release (smodels and smodels-database-release)

• Create database Json file for the new version

• Update main wiki page

• Update Python Index (WW)

• Clean up URL server (removed beta database releases)