Maintainer / core-developer information

For more information see https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/wiki/How-to-make-a-release

Making a release

1. Update docs:

   • edit the doc/whats_new.rst file to add release title and commit statistics. You can retrieve commit statistics with:

     $ git shortlog -ns 0.998..
     

   • edit the doc/conf.py to increase the version number

   • edit the doc/themes/scikit-learn/layout.html to change the ‘News’ entry of the front page.

2. Update the version number in sklearn/__init__.py, the __version__ variable

3. Create the tag and push it:

   $ git tag 0.999
   
   $ git push origin --tags
   

4. create tarballs:

   • Wipe clean your repo:

     $ git clean -xfd
     

   • Register and upload on PyPI:

     $ python setup.py sdist register upload
     

   • Upload manually the tarball on SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/scikit-learn/files/

5. Push the documentation to the website (see README in doc folder)

6. Build binaries for windows and push them to PyPI:

   $ python setup.py bdist_wininst upload
   

   And upload them also to sourceforge