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+Developer Notes
+===============
+
+
+Publish a new release
+---------------------
+1. merge current devel branch into master
+   git checkout master; git merge devel
+2. make a new tag 'vmajor.minor.patch' where major is major release and so on
+   git tag -m "release description" v1.1
+3. IMPORTANT: first push, then push --tags
+   git push; git push --tags