To Make a "release" of SciPy, follow these steps:

1) Make sure the current trunk builds a package correctly:

• python setup.py bdist usually works
• python setup.py sdist followed by trying to build the package is another option

2) Create the release "tag"

• svn cp http://svn.scipy.org/svn/scipy/trunk http://svn.scipy.org/svn/scipy/tags/<version>

3) Update the version of the trunk

• Change the scipy/version.py file to bump up the release number to the next release

4) Update the version of the tag

• Switch to the tagged tree (svn switch http://svn.scipy.org/svn/scipy/tags/<version>
• Update the scipy/version.py by changing the released line to True

5) Make the distribution tar-files and binary releases and up-load them to SourceForge