formalize release steps

[boneskull]

I had to do a release quickly due to #1285, but I wasn't sure what all needed to be done.

I'm thinking it's something like:

1. make && make test
2. update History.md (git changelog? Not sure how to use it)
3. update Readme.md (git summary, I guess)
4. commit, tag, push

Any steps I'm missing?

thanks,
Chris

[travisjeffery]

and publish to npm. don't rely on git changelog for 2, you'll need to manually adjust things to improve the readability. also, let's hold off on multiple people making releases just yet, since we're struggling with multiple people merging code alone.