Release process

1. Checkout master tip.

2. Check to make sure setup.py, requirements files, and docs/installation.rst have correct version of elasticsearch-py.

3. Update version numbers in elasticutils/_version.py.

   1. Set __version__ to something like 0.4.
   2. Set __releasedate__ to something like 20120731.

4. Update CONTRIBUTORS, CHANGELOG, MANIFEST.in.

   Make sure to set the date for the release in CHANGELOG.

   Make sure requirements in setup.py, docs/installation.rst and CHANGELOG all match.

5. Verify correctness.

   1. Run tests.
   2. Build docs.
   3. Run sample programs in docs.
   4. Verify all that works.

6. Tag the release:

   $ git tag -a v0.4
   

   Copy the details from CHANGELOG into the tag comment.

7. Push everything:

   $ git push --tags official master
   

8. Update PyPI:

   $ rm -rf dist/*
   $ python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
   $ twine upload dist/*
   

9. Update topic in #elasticutils, blog post, twitter, etc.