PyPI/conda-forge release

[ericmjl]

Hi! I'm wondering if you all might be considering a release of the package on PyPI and/or conda-forge?

Happy to help guide the process if a lack of knowledge is the main barrier here, have done this for other bioinformatics-oriented tools.

[HWaymentSteele]

Hi Eric! Glad you find the software useful. It is mostly bandwidth on our end that has prohibited a pypi release. If you'd be willing to contribute in that way, we'd be most grateful!

[ericmjl]

Happy to help, there are some specific things I could do, such as registering a package name on PyPI first and ensuring that you all have the relevant permissions to push packages to that PyPI package project -- followed by handing over ownership to you all. Releases to PyPI are much lighter weight than doing a peer-reviewed paper 😹. Let me know if you'd like that.

I also know the conda-forge process and bots well enough to have them do auto pulls from PyPI to conda-forge as well, which will ensure that you have distributions on both PyPI and conda-forge. We can proceed with that afterwards.

There are project-specific things that need to be defined, such as what the release process looks like (e.g. who cuts the releases, when), what versioning system you would use (semver vs. date-based), and whether you'd want some form of automation in the repo for releases (like what I do for pyjanitor). I'd defer to you all for answers to these questions though.

Let me know how you'd like to proceed!