How to make a release

1. Update changelog.

2. Build the doc (cd doc; make html_stable), make sure all examples work.

3. Change the version number in __init__.py, and push branch upstream.

4. Add a tag (git tag 0.5).

5. Commit the tag (git push --tag).

6. Upload the doc to pysurfer website, which is the repo github.com/PySurfer/pysurfer.github.com. This should be something like:

cp -r _build/html_stable/* ../../pysurfer.github.com
cd ../../pysurfer.github.com
git add *
git add */*
git ci -m "sync with pysurfer/pysurfer/master"
git push origin master

7. Make release on PyPi: python setup.py sdist followed by python setup.py sdist register upload.

8. Test pip install to make sure PyPi worked.

9. Email [email protected] and [email protected] mailing lists with something like:

Dear All,

We are pleased to announce the 0.4 release of PySurfer, a Python-based package for visualizing Freesurfer data. This release includes bugfixes and multiple enhancements, including:

- Displaying data from both hemispheres simultaneously
- Displaying multiple views simultaneously
- Toggling Mayavi toolbars
- Using nibabel for IO functions
- A variety of minor improvements here and there

Please see our website (http://pysurfer.github.com/) for information on installation, documentation, and the example gallery.

We hope you find it useful in your research!

Eric Larson, Michael Waskom, Alexandre Gramfort, and the Nipy team