Release rebird 1.4.0

[sebpardo]

Prepare for release:

• git pull
• Check current CRAN check results
• Polish NEWS
• Update README
• urlchecker::url_check()
• devtools::build_readme()
• devtools::check(remote = TRUE, manual = TRUE)
• devtools::check_win_devel()
• revdepcheck::revdep_check(num_workers = 4)
• Update cran-comments.md
• git push

Submit to CRAN:

• usethis::use_version('minor')
• codemetar::write_codemeta()
• Commit locally, but don't push yet
• devtools::submit_cran()
• Approve email

Wait for CRAN...

• Accepted 🎉
• usethis::use_github_release() (This step also pushes local commit(s) to GitHub)
• usethis::use_dev_version(push = TRUE)

[slager]

Let me know if you run into any questions with the CRAN release, I recently did this with rvertnet!

Can you use this ORCID? comment = "0000-0003-2525-2039"

[sebpardo]

Will do, and what email should I include?

[slager]

Feel free to just skip the email

[slager]

One particular thing that tripped me up with rvertnet @sebpardo is that in order to get the usethis versioning tools to work as advertised to follow the workflow above, I needed to change all my NEWS.md headings to use a single # instead of a horizontal bar of ======, like this:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ropensci/rvertnet/master/NEWS.md

[slager]

Added write_codemeta to the above checklist at the best spot based on my recent experience with rvertnet.

[RichardLitt]

Is there something I can do to help this along?

[sebpardo]

Hi @RichardLitt, thanks for offering to help. There are two outstanding issues (#115 and #129) that need resolving before submitting to CRAN. Another thing to consider is that the 2024 taxonomy update will likely be happening in October, so depending how long it takes us to get things ready it might be better to hold on updating until then.