Vak version 0.5.0 released!

[nicholdav]

Hi all,

Just a heads up that vak version 0.5.0 is released:

vocalpy/vak/blob/main/doc/CHANGELOG.md#050----2022-06-25

You should be able to pip install or get it through the conda-forge channel now.

Big addition here is the ability to continue training models, contributed by @kaiyaprovost and based on work in their pre-print. Thank you Kaiya!

This is also the first time I’ve worked with someone as a maintainer on a sizable code contribution to a project
Gory detail in the pull request here if you want to read:

ENH: Adding training checkpoint feature

There are also some doc fixes – thanks to @YMK123 for helping catch issues with how we explained the expected naming conventions for annotation files:

How do I use my own vocal annotation format?

Based on other issues I think this still might be a point of confusion, see e.g. DOC: Better document naming convention · Issue #524 · vocalpy/vak · GitHub
The long term plan is to make it easier to build datasets by letting people specify whatever convention they want
ENH: add `pair` function with `key` argument · Issue #2 · vocalpy/vocles · GitHub
(I know the wording in this issue is only clear to me at the moment so you just have to take my word that’s the plan )

Thanks all for contributing and please feel free to give feedback when you test it out!