Preparing a release

The following steps are necessary when preparing a release:

• ensure all unit tests run
• bump version number
• ensure travis builds are passing
• upload to pypi using ./pypi.sh
• make sure you can do pip install hyperstream from a clean environment
• ensure that SPHERE hyperstream is still functional
• create a new release and associated tag

Additionally

• download the pdf of documentation from readthedocs.io
• download the zipped tarball for the release
• check both of the above