This document contains notes for developers and packagers. End users probably want to read README and the files in the doc directory instead.

1. Make sure the repository is up-to date.
2. Ensure the version is incremented:
   • setup.py must be updated
   • doc/config.py must be updated
   • CHANGES.txt must contain a summary of the changes
3. Make sure all changes are committed, including the version number changes.
4. Tag the sources with hg tag -m 'Tag mscgen-X.Y'.
5. Don't forget to hg push.
6. Temporarily modify the setup.cfg file to comment out the variables tag_build = dev and tag_date = true (do not commit this changes).
7. Register and upload the new release python setup.py register sdist upload.
8. Generate the documentation with make -C doc zip.
9. Upload the new documentation (doc/_build/sphinxcontrib-mscgen-doc.zip) to PyPi: http://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=pkg_edit&name=sphinxcontrib-mscgen