Release checklist

[RAMitchell]

The following is a list of tasks for us to make a legate-boost single-node release.

• Legate.core.internal and cunumeric.internal conda packages
• SWIPAT to open source legate-boost
• Adopt versioning for legate-boost (Implement calendar versioning #162)
• Conda package for legate-boost (add legate-boost conda packages #115)
• Documentation is publically available
• publish a stable release (v24.09.00) once there are stable legate and cunumeric 24.09 releases

This first release will target a single node user being able to install:

conda install -c some-channel legate-core cunumeric legate-boost

and run basic legateboost examples on multiple GPUs or CPUs. They should be able to read documention for python API functions.

[aterrel]

Met with @magnatelee, @RAMitchell, @mmccarty, @dongb

It seems that it will be too quick of a turnaround to get legate.core released before ISC.

@mmccarty mentioned that we could release a download without conda packages but if we release legate-boost without releasing the legate.core then users can be confused due to the python implementation being incompatible.

Could we release a private version to share with partners?

[sbuneti]

@manopapad for cuNumeric & Legate.core packaging strategy/updates

[jameslamb]

Adopt versioning for legate-boost

We're going to adopt calendar-based versioning following what cuNumeric and Legate are doing as closely as possible.

To help with that, I just tagged the latest commit on main as v0.1.0: https://github.com/rapidsai/legate-boost/releases/tag/v0.1.0. The first calendar-based version after that (v2024.09.00, presumably) will then be newer than that.

Having a tag in the repo is necessary for publishing pre-releases, because for those we'll follow the cuNumeric/Legate approach of using versions like 24.09.00dev{n}, where {n} is "number of commits since the previous stable release (indicated by git tags)".

[jameslamb]

Now that #115 is complete, most of this is done!

I added one more item in the list at the top... we'll just want to cut a stable release of legate-boost (24.09.00) whenever there are stable releases of legate and cunumeric.

There are not any yet:

• https://anaconda.org/legate/legate/files
• https://anaconda.org/legate/cunumeric/files