1.9.0 Release

[sgillies]

It's long overdue! Here is my proposed plan.

• Merge maint-1.8 again
• Retarget all open PRs that are aimed at maint-1.8 onto maint-1.9 and merge or close
• Update our CI (backports from 2.0?)
• Find out how much it costs to build wheels on Travis-CI (mentioned in Add support for Python 3.10 #1049)
• Make a 1.9a1 by mid-January 2022
• 1.9.0 end of January 2022?

[snowman2]

This may be a useful reference: https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/billing-faq/#what-if-i-am-building-open-source

[mwtoews]

Will this release keep Python 2 support? It's currently Python 2.6+

[sgillies]

@mwtoews no. That was the plan initially but 2.7 has been kaput for a year now.

[snowman2]

I would recommend at least 3.7+ since 3.6 is EOL (https://devguide.python.org/#status-of-python-branches). If you wanted to further simplify the matrix, you could go 3.8+ (pyproj4/pyproj#930).

[sgillies]

Let's have a 1.9a1 pre-release! Thursday or Friday 2022-05-19/20 could be feasible.

[sgillies]

Here we go: https://pypi.org/project/Fiona/1.9a1/#files.

[sgillies]

1.9a2 tomorrow, 2022-06-07. Including the new CRS class, exit stack, fewer warnings.

[sgillies]

#1116 took more time than I expected. Our tests were filled with literal feature and geometry dicts. I hope the 2.0 change isn't that hard for users! 1.9a2 wheels are built and headed to PyPI now.

[sgillies]

https://pypi.org/project/Fiona/1.9a2/#files.