New release v2.8.0 - No more Python 3.7

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Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 66.66667% with 1 line in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 47.76%. Comparing base (00d1e06) to head (45e84c1).
Report is 55 commits behind head on master.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
dds_cli/__init__.py	66.66%	1 Missing ⚠️

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[rv0lt]

@aishling-scilifelab Still needs approval from someone else somehow, maybe because I assigned myself to it?

[i-oden]

@aishling-scilifelab Still needs approval from someone else somehow, maybe because I assigned myself to it?

For me it says it's ok to merge (Also Aishling is on holiday).
Since it's all been previously approved in PRs, I will merge now.

[rv0lt]

@aishling-scilifelab Still needs approval from someone else somehow, maybe because I assigned myself to it?

For me it says it's ok to merge (Also Aishling is on holiday). Since it's all been previously approved in PRs, I will merge now.

Uh sorry, I meant to ping you