Release v0.7?

[dkarrasch]

Please, please consider releasing v0.7 very soon. The currently released state of the package can be viewed as nearly-broken. This is due to the many deprecation warnings. For instance, see JuliaLinearAlgebra/GenericLinearAlgebra.jl#91, whose CI was failing, because it couldn't finish its test suite within 5 hours. Usually, it takes just a handful of minutes. Essentially all of the 5 hours were spent on computing the QR decomposition of a 50x50 quaternion matrix. There, dot products of quaternion vectors are computed, and in every product of quaternions the package itself uses a quaternion constructor that is deprecated, so it's not even the "fault" of the downstream package. Releasing a new minor version should do no harm, because all downstream packages are stuck at v0.6.x by their Project.toml. Anyone who wants to upgrade will run CI and fix all issues that appear, so there shouldn't be any breakage in the ecosystem.

[sethaxen]

Thanks for pinging us, and yes, we should do this soon. @hyrodium is #108 the only thing missing before we can release?

[hyrodium]

#108 is the biggest change, but we also have #62 and #86. These two are not hard to fix.

[sethaxen]

I agree, all of these should be in the release. I'll finish up #108 today or tomorrow.

[sethaxen]

@hyrodium I can also take removing all complex promotion to quaternion unless you've already started on it.

[hyrodium]

Thanks for the suggestion! I opened #113 to remove complex promotions. I will update #95 and #111 today or tomorrow.

[hyrodium]

The next version v0.7.0 will be released soon! JuliaRegistries/General#73647