Target: first formal contributor release after establishing the release process.

GitHub milestone: 0.2.0 (create via Create release milestone workflow if it does not exist yet).

Theme

Ship contributor-ready infrastructure, documentation improvements landing on dev, and small bug fixes โ€” without large experimental RL/evolution features.

In scope

Release infrastructure

Item Type Notes
#954 PR Formal release process, unified versioning, release workflow
docs/RELEASE.md Docs Maintainer release checklist
0.2.0 GitHub milestone Process This milestone

Documentation

Item Type Notes
#950 PR Phase 1 docs reorganization (merged)
#952 PR Phase 3 content consolidation + link checking
#953 PR Phase 4 legacy URL redirects + external link CI

Bug fixes

Item Type Notes
#944 PR Missing FineTuningConfig / EnvFactory imports
#930 Issue Tracks the import bug above

Out of scope (defer to later milestones)

Research and experiment follow-ups should not block 0.2.0:

  • Inherited-payload ladder (#904)
  • Intrinsic goals experiment follow-ups (#892โ€“#895)
  • Baldwinian vs Lamarckian A/B (#849)
  • Batch DQN inference (#917)

Release criteria

Before cutting v0.2.0:

  • All In scope PRs merged to dev
  • dev CI green (tests, deterministic-simulation)
  • CHANGELOG.md has a ## [0.2.0] section
  • farm/_version.py bumped to 0.2.0
  • Release PR merged to main and GitHub Release published

Changelog draft (fill on release)

## [0.2.0] - YYYY-MM-DD

### Added
- Formal release process and unified package versioning

### Changed
- Documentation site reorganization and link-check CI

### Fixed
- Missing imports for FineTuningConfig and EnvFactory