This is housekeeping in preparation of a release 0.11.0 (#452)

* update copyright year to 2022

* fix PyPI description display and updated copyright year in `LICENSE.txt`

* Bumped version number

* clear outputs of gpfa notebook

* fix pep8

* fix further pep8

* fixed CodeFactor issues

* fixed further CodeFactor issues

* removed maintainers_guide.rst

* remove travis.yml

* added release notes for release 0.11.0

Author: Moritz-Alexander-Kern

.travis.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright (c) 2014-2019, Elephant authors and contributors
+Copyright (c) 2014-2022, Elephant authors and contributors
 All rights reserved.
 
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
 * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
 * Neither the names of the copyright holders nor the names of the contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
 
-THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

LICENSE.txt

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Modified BSD License, see [LICENSE.txt](LICENSE.txt) for details.
 
 #### Copyright
 
-:copyright: 2014-2021 by the [Elephant team](doc/authors.rst).
+:copyright: 2014-2022 by the [Elephant team](doc/authors.rst).
 
 
 #### Acknowledgments

README.md

@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@
 exclude_patterns = [
     '_build',
     '**.ipynb_checkpoints',
-    'maintainers_guide.rst',  # should not be visible for users
 ]
 
 # The reST default role (used for this markup: `text`) to use for all documents.

doc/conf.py

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 Release Notes
 =============
 
+Elephant 0.11.0 release notes
+=============================
+
+Breaking changes
+-------------
+
+* For current source density measures electrode coordinates can no longer be supplied via a `RecordingChannelGroup` object as it is no longer supported in Neo v0.10.0 (#447)
+
+New functionality and features
+-------------
+
+* Redesigned `elephant.spike_train_generation` module using classes (old API is retained for compatibility) (#416)
+* Added function to calculate the multitaper power spectral density estimate in `elephant.spectral` (#417)
+* Added a boundary correction for the firing rate estimator `elephant.statistics.instantaneous_rate` with Gaussian kernels (#414)
+* Function to discretise spiketimes for a given spiketrain in `elephant.conversion` (#454)
+* Support for the new `SpikeTrainList` object of Neo (#447)
+
+Bug fixes
+-------------
+
+* Issue with unit scaling in `BinnedSpikeTrain` (#425)
+* Changed `BinnedSpikeTrain` to support quantities<0.12.4 (#418)
+* Fix `FloatingPointError` in ICSD (#421)
+* `t_start` information was lost while transposing LFP for `current_source_density` module (#432)
+* Fix `neo_tools` unit tests to work with Neo 0.10.0+ (#446)
+* Fixed various issues with consistency of bin boundaries of instantaneous rates (#453)
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+* Update tutorials ASSET and UE tutorial and datasets to use nixio >=1.5.0 (#441)
+* Updated `spade` tutorial to work with viziphant 0.2.0 (#444)
+* Fixed figures in the Granger causality tutorial (#434)
+* Add DOIs to documentation (#456)
+* Fixed random seed selection in some tutorials (#430)
+
+Optimizations
+-------------
+
+* Highly optimized run-time of the SPADE analysis (#419)
+* More efficient storage of spike complexities by the `elephant.statistics.Complexity` class (#412)
+* Updated `elephant.signal_processing.zscore` function for in-place operations (#440)
+
+Other changes
+-------------
+
+* Continuous Integration (CI) was moved to github actions (#451)
+* Change test framework from Nose to pytest (#413)
+* Added DOI with zenodo (#445)
+* Versioning for associated `elephant-data` repository for example datasets introduced (#463)
+
+
+Selected dependency changes
+-------------
+* nixio >= 1.5.0
+* neo >= 0.10.0
+* python >= 3.7
+
+
 Elephant 0.10.0 release notes
 =============================