Prepare 2.6.0 release (#534)

* Update release notes to mark version 2.6.0

* Scrub NWB:N and update legal year

* Remove old scripts and 1.0.4 schema

* Update github action to validate schema

* Update legal year

* Fix release notes

* Add link to NWB overview on main README

* Update release template

* Update release template

* Update Readme.md

* Update format_release_notes.rst

* Add note about NWB 1 reference schema

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/release.md

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 Prepare for release of nwb-schema [version]
+Target release date: [date]
 
 ### Before merging:
 - [ ] Update requirements versions as needed
@@ -13,8 +14,8 @@ Prepare for release of nwb-schema [version]
 - [ ] Test docs locally (`cd docs/format; make fulldoc`) where the nwb-schema submodule in the local version of PyNWB
   is fully up-to-date with the head of the dev branch.
 - [ ] Push changes to this PR and make sure all PRs to be included in this release have been merged
-- [ ] Check that the readthedocs build for this PR succeeds (build latest to pull the new branch, then activate and
-  build docs for new branch): https://readthedocs.org/projects/nwb-schema/builds/
+- [ ] Check that the readthedocs build for this PR succeeds (see auto-triggered PR build):
+  https://readthedocs.org/projects/nwb-schema/builds/
 
 ### After merging:
 1. Create a new git tag. Pull the latest master branch locally, run `git tag [version] --sign`, copy and paste the

.github/workflows/validate_schema.yml

@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
 name: Validate schema
 
-on: [push, pull_request]
+on: [push, pull_request, workflow_dispatch]
 
 jobs:
   validate:
     # run pipeline on either a push event or a PR event on a fork
     if: github.event_name != 'pull_request' || github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name != github.event.pull_request.base.repo.full_name
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
-    - name: Set up Python 3.9
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - name: Set up Python 3.10
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v4
       with:
-        python-version: "3.9"
-    - name: Install hdmf
+        python-version: "3.10"
+    - name: Install dev branch of HDMF
       run: |
         pip install git+https://github.com/hdmf-dev/hdmf.git
     - name: Validate schema specification

Legal.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-“nwb-schema” Copyright (c) 2017-2021, The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy).  All rights reserved.
+“nwb-schema” Copyright (c) 2017-2023, The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy).  All rights reserved.
 
 If you have questions about your rights to use or distribute this software, please contact Berkeley Lab's Innovation & Partnerships Office at [email protected].
 

README.rst

@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 NWB Schema Format
 ========================
 
-A format specification schema for the Neurodata Without Borders: Neurophysiology (NWB:N) data format.
+A format specification schema for the Neurodata Without Borders (NWB) data format.
+
+To get started using NWB, please go to the [NWB overview website](https://nwb-overview.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
 
 This repo contains:
 
@@ -19,11 +21,13 @@ For more information:
 - The PyNWB Python API for the NWB format is available on `Github <https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/pynwb>`_
 - The MatNWB Matlab API for the NWB format is available on `Github <https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/matnwb>`_
 
+The NWB 1.0 format and API are archived in the [NeurodataWithoutBorders/api-python](https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/api-python) repository. https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/api-python/blob/master/nwb/nwb_core.py contains the reference schema for the NWB 1 format. 
+
 
 License
 ========================
 
-“nwb-schema” Copyright (c) 2017-2021, The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy).  All rights reserved.
+“nwb-schema” Copyright (c) 2017-2023, The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy).  All rights reserved.
 
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
 
@@ -41,7 +45,7 @@ You are under no obligation whatsoever to provide any bug fixes, patches, or upg
 Copyright
 ========================
 
-“nwb-schema” Copyright (c) 2017-2021, The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy).  All rights reserved.
+“nwb-schema” Copyright (c) 2017-2023, The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy).  All rights reserved.
 
 If you have questions about your rights to use or distribute this software, please contact Berkeley Lab's Innovation & Partnerships Office at [email protected].