Merge v1.2 with main

.github/pull_request_template.md

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+Fixes: #---
+
+## Quality Assurance Checklist
+- [ ] This PR is opened against the dev branch.
+- [ ] Code follows the project style guidelines and passes flake8 linting.
+- [ ] Type annotations are correct and pass mypy static analysis.
+- [ ] All existing and new unittests pass locally.
+
+## Proposed Changes

.github/workflows/publish.yml

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 # documentation.
 
 name: Upload Python Package
-
 on:
   release:
     types: [published]
@@ -25,7 +24,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Set up Python
       uses: actions/setup-python@v3
       with:
-        python-version: '3.x'
+        python-version: '3.13'
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip

.github/workflows/python-test.yml

@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
 
 name: Package test
 
+permissions:
+  contents: read  
+
 on:
   push:
     branches: [ "main", "dev"]
@@ -16,7 +19,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python-version: ["3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
+        python-version: ["3.12", "3.13", "3.14"]
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v3
@@ -42,7 +45,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-          python-version: ["3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
+          python-version: ["3.12", "3.13", "3.14"]
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3

.github/workflows/wiki.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+name: Publish wiki
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+    paths:
+      - docs/**
+      - .github/workflows/publish-wiki.yml
+  workflow_dispatch:
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+jobs:
+  publish-wiki:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v6
+        with:
+          node-version: "latest"
+      - name: render badge images
+        run: |
+          cd docs/_static
+          npm ci
+          node create_badges.js
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v6
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.13'
+      - name: build wiki
+        run: |
+          pip install -e .
+          pip install -r docs/docs_source/requirements.txt
+          make -C docs/docs_source markdown
+      - name: move markdown pages
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p docs/API
+          rm docs/docs_source/build/markdown/index.md
+          mv docs/docs_source/build/markdown/* docs/API/
+          # remove source_dir
+          rm -r docs/docs_source
+      - uses: Andrew-Chen-Wang/github-wiki-action@v4
+        with:
+          path: docs/

.gitignore

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ __pycache__/
 
 # C extensions
 *.so
+*.C
 
 # unignore built documentation
 
@@ -166,5 +167,5 @@ cython_debug/
 #.idea/
 
 .DS_Store
-
+node_modules/
 

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,25 @@
+# Version 1.2
+- Required Python version: >= 3.12
+- The package now follows SPEC0
+- All functions can be now be imported from the top-level namespace
+- Adding descriptive statistics and plotting functions
+- Added support for the GRM and GPCM models (polytomous response variables)
+- Added `SkewNormalPrior` and `EmpiricalPrior` for Bayesian ability estimation
+- Added support for Content Balancing and Exposure Control
+- The package is now also published on conda-forge
+
+*Note*: We have tried our best to eliminate breaking changes. 
+But still, please be careful when updating to this version.
+
+# Version 1.1.5
+- Bug Fix #46 (numerical stability issue concerning Bayesian ability estimation)
+
+# Version 1.1.4
+- Bug Fix #43 (optimization interval in `maximize_posterior` function)
+
+# Version 1.1.3
+- Bug Fix #34 (numerical stability issue concerning the ability estimation and standard error calculation)
+
 # Version 1.1.2
 
 - The `ItemPool` class now correctly honors the `id` field of items. (#30, #31)