Tasks

• Minor migration prior to the major migration of Bob 12

This migration will close the previous issues, update all packages and make sure we have a stable setup that we can modify

• Complete database migration to CSV format (protocol, etc.)

The database migration makes sure we can handle and rely on the CSV format for everything related to databases (protocol, etc.)

• Mac OS M1 arm machine migration to OS X 12 (Monterey)

This should help solve the issue with scikit-learn and detailed here:

• bob.learn.em!68 (comment 78288) (Fixed with OS X 12 update)

• Migration of all bob core packages to citools:
  • bob/bob.io.base
  • bob/bob.measure
  • bob/bob.learn.em
  • bob/bob.pipelines
  • bob/bob.bio.base
  • bob/bob.bio.face
  • bob/bob.bio.video
  • bob/bob.bio.vein
  • bob/bob.bio.spear
  • bob/bob.pad.base
  • bob/bob.pad.face
  • bob/bob.fusion.base
  • bob/bob
  • Deprecate and archive bob/bob.extension

This should improve the overall CI process

• Documentation update for all bob core packages

Improve usability for our users.

Extra information and changes:

Here are a few changes that need to be addressed for the bob 12.0.0 release:

• Integrate the new database interface:
  • Merge bob.pipelines!99 (merged),
  • Fix bob.bio.base!300 (merged),
  • Merge/fix all packages MR:
    • bob.bio.face!190 (merged),
    • bob.bio.spear!68 (merged),
    • bob.bio.video!58 (merged),
    • bob.bio.vein!65 (merged),
  • Document the new interface,
• Support python 3.10:
  • Add CI pipelines/runners,
  • Remove support for python 3.8,
• Documentation:
  • Simplify bob/docs to only point to the latest or stable doc of each package,
  • Add the installation instructions somewhere,
  • Update the doc to reflect the new project creation process,
  • General update to ensure that everything is up to date with the code,
  • Check that all URLs are updated within the packages
• GitLab Cleanup: remove old issues, MR, and branches if irrelevant.