Update LTS to Julia 1.10 - BestieTemplate

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Motivation

Since the recent news that Julia LTS is 1.10, we should update the LTS version to 1.10 instead of 1.6.
This will potentially allow us to get rid of workaround we used to maintain 1.6 and use PackageExtensions instead of Require for optional deps.

This is also a good opportunity to switch the packages to BestieTemplate.

Tasks

• Install pre-commit on your machine https://juliabesties.github.io/BestieTemplate.jl/stable/10-full-guide/#pre-commit
• Add JuliaFormatter and BestieTemplate in your Julia env
• Apply BestieTemplate
  • Follow this https://github.com/JuliaSmoothOptimizers/Organization/blob/main/JSOBestie/BestieTemplate/apply-update.jl
  • Fix the conflicts
    Remove examples/codes from the README, keep minimal.
    Keep README.md and docs/index.md minimal to ease future update.
    Rename files in the docs/src folder (must start with a number)
    Rename files in the tests (must start with test-)
    Clean runtests.jl
  • Add extra references in the CITATION.cff (preferred-citation)
  • Run pre-commit run -a in the terminal before pushing your branch with the changes
• Check if some code is specific Julia 1.6 (tests mainly)
• Create issues to replace Require.jl and use PkgExtensions.
• Write on Zulip if the doc is not running (probably FORMATER_KEY issue)
• Write on Zulip if the code coverage is not running (probably FORMATER_KEY issue - or wrong branch tracked)
• Write on Zulip if allcontributors is not working.
  See, Update readme tmigot/NonSmoothDynamics.jl#10, for an example.

Questions (for later)

• Ask Abel why not use lts instead of mentioning 1.10.
• How to update? How frequently?
  • Keep JuliaFormatter ? Create an issue on BestieTemplate. Is there a way to do it automatically?
  • Ask Abel if there is a way to keep our modifications in files (example: README.md or docs/index.md)

Next steps

• @dpo LinearOperators, RegularizedProblems
• @MaxenceGollier RegularizedOptimization
• @tmigot optimization solvers, ADNLPModels
• Ask Alexis (Krylov.jl, DiffKrylov.jl, KrylovPreconditionner.jl, CUTEst.jl, HSL.jl, NLPModelsJuMP.jl) -> Tangi

Next release is 0.X as updating to Julia 1.10.

Result

Make an announcement on the website.

Comments

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-10-7-has-been-released/123141

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@MaxenceGollier

[tmigot]

@amontoison Would you be interested in testing BestieTemplate as described above on one (or more) of the packages your maintain?

[amontoison]

I think we should do like in the optimal control organisation where we have one packages with all CI scripts (CTActions.jl).
We need to centralize thing more than anything else and I don't think that BestieTemplate helps with that.

[tmigot]

BestieTemplate is doing more than handling the CIs, and it would avoid us maintaining another template. Moreover, BestieTemplate will ensure update in good practices and scripts without us tracking it.

If all the packages have the same structures, files and scripts it helps a lot organization-wide updates.
--> This is also an important step if we want to centralize at some point (happy to discuss that further).

IMO, the centralization idea is excellent and would solve several inconvenients we have now, both combined would be perfect!

[amontoison]

https://github.com/control-toolbox/CTActions

[amontoison]

We can discuss of that in March if you want to Tangi. I'm traveling the next two weeks but shoul dhave some bandwidth after.