pypi-release.md

• Update version in setup.cfg, usually by remove .dev
• Check that CHANGES.rst describes all changes since the last version
• Replace unreleased with today's YYYY-MM-DD in CHANGES.rst
• Commit and tag

git add .
git commit -m 'prepare for release'
git tag v0.15

• Bump version in setup.cfg and append .dev
• Add new section in CHANGES.rst e.g.

0.16 (unreleased)
-----------------

- No changes yet

• Commit dev version: and checkout tag as detached head:

git add .
git commit -m 'back to work'

• Checkout tag as detached head and upload to pypi:

git checkout v0.15
python setup.py sdist
twine upload dist/*

• Finally, push the changes and go back to the main branch:

git checkout master
git push --tags
git push

If you are doing this for the first time, you might need to conda install twine and save credentials in .pypirc.