How to make a release

• Write the changelog (doc/whats_new.rst). Commit counts can be generated using git log <last_release>.. | git shortlog -s -n

• Fix Milestone issues

• Compile documentation, make sure all examples compile. If sphinx refuses to work generate reference for functions, use sphinx 1.0.0 (which seems to work fine).

• Tag master with X.X-branching

• Create a new branch X.X. Next step for both branches separately (once with -git, once without)

• Change the version number in

  • doc/conf.py

  • mne/__init__.py

• check on python 2.6, 2.7

• Tag X.X branch as X.X.

• then python setup.py sdist will create a .tar.gz in the dist/ directory.

• untar and test it

• upload to PyPi with python setup.py sdist upload

• hide the old version on the PyPi website

• remove all deprecated features from dev that are to be removed in the next version.