Add release instructions to README (#99)

README.md

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 * [Close the Connection](#close-the-connection)
 * [License](#License)
 * [How to Get Support and Contribute](#how-to-get-support-and-contribute)
+* [How to Release](#how-to-release)
 
 # Welcome to the Wavefront Python SDK
 
@@ -503,3 +504,19 @@ total_failures = wavefront_sender.get_failure_count()
   the minor and patch versions.
 * Reach out to us on our public [Slack channel](https://www.wavefront.com/join-public-slack).
 * If you run into any issues, let us know by creating a GitHub issue.
+
+## How to Release
+
+1. Merge all the changes that need to go into the release to the master branch.
+2. Open the `setup.py` file from the top level directory of the project.
+3. Search for `version=` in the file to find the version number for example `1.8.10`.
+4. Log into Github, click **Releases** on the right, and click **Draft a new release**.
+5. For **Choose a tag**, choose the version you found in step 3, and prefix it with `v` for example `v1.8.10`. You need to enter the version where it says **Find or create new tag**.
+
+<img src="images/choose-version.png" alt="A diagram that shows how to choose version"/>
+
+6. Provide a short but descriptive title for the release.
+7. Fill in the details of the release. Please copy the markdown from the previous release and follow the same format.
+8. Click **Publish release.** to start publishing the release to pypi.org.
+9. From the Github top navigation bar of this project, click the **Actions** tab. On the first line of the list of workflows, you should see a workflow running that will publish your release to pypi.org.
+10. When the workflow from step 9 has a green checkmark next to it, go to [pypi.org](https://pypi.org/project/wavefront-sdk-python/) and verify that the latest version is published.

setup.py

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 setuptools.setup(
     name='wavefront-sdk-python',
-    version='1.8.10',  # The version number. Update with each pull request.
+    version='1.8.11',  # The version number. Update with each pull request.
     author='Wavefront by VMware',
     url='https://github.com/wavefrontHQ/wavefront-sdk-python',
     license='Apache-2.0',