<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi all,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Recent updates to Biopython have focused on removing the old Python2-specific code and cleaning up the code for Python3.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Since this is now essentially finished, now would be a good time to make the next Biopython release (1.77). Also, this will be the last release before we start removing alphabets from Biopython.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Is anybody (especially junior people) interested in managing this release?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The release process is now well documented:<br></div><div><br></div><div><a shape="rect" href="https://biopython.org/wiki/Building_a_release" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://biopython.org/wiki/Building_a_release</a><br clear="none"></div><div><br></div><div>It also entails looking at recent bug reports and seeing if any of them are sufficiently important that they should be fixed before the release can be made.</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">If any volunteers could write to the mailing list, then that would be great.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thanks!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">-Michiel<br></div></div></div></div></body></html>