Tag or releases of lerobot?

[traversaro]

Thanks a lot for all the great work on lerobot!

I was wondering if you plan to eventually either tag or release the software in this repo? While it is already possible to install in a reproducible way a specific version of lerobot via:

pip install "lerobot @ git+https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot.git@a445d9c9da6bea99a8972daa4fe1fdd053d711d2"

having releases would be convenient for the following reasons:

• It is easier to express compatibility bounds (i.e. I know that my software is compatuble with lerobot >= 0.1.2 and lerobot < 0.2.5, while expressing this with raw commits is tricky)
• It can be used to upload versions to pip (for example, as of May 2025 pip install lerobot works fine, but it install a really old versions of lerobot). This may permit for example to upload to PyPI software that depends on recent features of lerobot.

I briefly searched if there were already discussion on this but I could not find any issue or discussion related to that, if there is something that I overlooked, feel free to let me know, thanks.

[traversaro]

Just to clarify, note that even if there is no strict back-compatibility policy, the aforementioned advantages of tags and release still hold. I just wanted to point this out, as it is common to conflate "doing tag/releases" with "doing a tag and doing long-term mantainance of that version", while this issue was only asking about doing tags, not about anything else.

[traversaro]

I briefly searched if there were already discussion on this but I could not find any issue or discussion related to that

Probably Physical-Intelligence/openpi#313 (comment) is related.