0.2.0

New Features

1. Support for Ensemble Execution and Evaluation

• Introduced the EnsembleManager class to manage the lifecycle of ensemble models.

2. Refactor Path Management

• Refactored ModelPath and EnsemblePath to ModelPathManager and EnsemblePathManager respectively for better clarity and management.

3. Pipeline Configuration

• Added a PipelineConfig class in views_pipeline_core.configs to handle runtime settings such as dataframe format.

4. Dataframe Handling

• Added read_dataframe and write_dataframe functions in views_pipeline_core.files.utils to handle parquet and pickle dataframe files based on extensions.

Improvements

1. Updated all tests to align with the new changes.
2. Added scaffolding templates for new models and ensembles, which are used in the views_models repository.
3. Updated .gitignore

Bug Fixes

1. Fixed the discrepancy between run type and partition

Enhancements

1. Added support for various evaluation types such as "standard", "long", "complete", and "live".

Deprecations

1. Deprecated the GlobalCache class as it was found to be redundant.