Release notes

v0.4.0 Syzygy

Work on this release was supported by the Prototype Fund.

  • Robust ListServ data ingress #460 #459 #457

  • New ReadTheDocs/Sphinx based documentation: domain name and organization metadata #414 #499 #548

  • New code submodule organization

  • 3GPP analysis #465

  • datasets submodule for ancillary data #509

  • Integration of IETF datatracker source and analysis of IETF attendance data #368 #560 #434

  • IETF draft analysis #370

  • Tools to identify the institution of email senders #25

  • Improved test coverage #343

  • Change from nose to unittest for testing framework #366

  • Updates and corrections to example notebooks #364

  • Bug fixes #538 #553 #555 #390

  • Preliminary work towards entity resolution #405

v0.3.0 Joie de vivre

This release converted the codebase to Python 3 and introduced the DataTracker and LISTSERV data sources, among with several new scientific notebooks and maintenance improvements.

  • Converted to Python 3 (#347, #373, #382, #388)

  • Installation improvements (#345, #410, #423)

  • Tenure calculation (#355)

  • Improved documentation (#351, #389, #450)

  • Improved testing (#372, #443)

  • W3C data source improvements (#344, #381)

  • Organization entity resolution (#385)

  • Integration of IETF DataTracker data (#386, #394, #444)

  • Organization and affiliation analysis notebooks (#396)

  • Code style pre-commit hooks (#403)

  • LISTSERV data source (#409, #442, #454, #456)

0.2.0 Tulip Revolution

We have released BigBang v0.2.0 Tulip Revolution.

This release marks a new milestone in BigBang development.

  • Gender participation estimation

  • Improved support for IETF mailing list ingest

  • Extensive gardening of the example notebooks

  • Upgraded all notebooks to Jupyter 4

  • Improved installation process based on user testing

En route to this milestone, the BigBang community made a number of changes to its procedures. These include:

  • The adoption of a Governance document for guiding decision-making.

  • The adoption of a Code of Conduct establishing norms of respectful behavior within the community.

  • The creation of an ombudsteam for handling personal disputes.

We have also for this milestone adopted by community decision the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.

0.1.0 Anteplanck I

An initial public release of BigBand. Proof of concept.