In the world of open-source software, releases ensure that the latest features, bug fixes, and improvements reach users promptly. However, the process

Automate your releases with the Jupyter Releaser 🚀

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In the world of open-source software, releases ensure that the latest features, bug fixes, and improvements reach users promptly. However, the process of managing releases, especially for large projects, can be complex and error-prone. This is where Jupyter Releaser comes into play.

Jupyter Releaser is an automation tool developed by the Jupyter team to streamline and standardize the release process across Jupyter projects. Its goal is simple: reduce the manual burden on maintainers, ensure consistency, best practices, improve confidence, and eliminate the potential for human error.

These pain points are not just frustrating; they can also delay the release of new versions and introduce issues that affect the end-users.

Jupyter Releaser automates and standardizes the release process, ensuring that everything from versioning to changelog generation and publishing is handled efficiently. It helps maintainers reduce toil and save time in the release process by enforcing best practices to:

The first one is to create a GitHub app for the organization or profile that owns the repo, following this guide. Then continue with the steps in the documentation to fill in the values for the app.