Release v0.2.0

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: patcon

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 ## [Unreleased][] (YYYY-MM-DD)
 
+_No changes yet._
+
+## [0.2.0][] (2026-02-16)
+
 ### Added
 - `hf:` and `huggingface:` source prefixes for `val.datasets.polis.load()` — load any HuggingFace-hosted Polis export as a one-liner, e.g. `load("hf:patcon/polis-aufstehen-2018")` ([#81][]).
 - `CLAUDE.md` guidance file for Claude Code contributors ([#58][]).
@@ -80,5 +84,7 @@ Initial release includes:
 
 <!-- Links -->
 
-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/patcon/valency-anndata/compare/v0.1.1...main
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/patcon/valency-anndata/compare/v0.2.0...main
+[0.2.0]: https://github.com/patcon/valency-anndata/compare/v0.1.1...v0.2.0
+[0.1.1]: https://github.com/patcon/valency-anndata/compare/v0.1.0...v0.1.1
 [0.1.0]: https://github.com/patcon/valency-anndata/releases/tag/v0.1.0

Makefile

@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ csv-export: ## Export Polis CSV files (usage: make csv-export URL=https://pol.is
 h5ad: ## Export a Polis conversation to h5ad (writes to exports/)
 	uv run python scripts/export_h5ad.py
 
+release: ## Print no-op documentation to guide the release process
+	uv run python scripts/release.py
+
 build: ## Build wheel package for publishing to PyPI
 	rm -rf dist/
 	uv build
@@ -54,7 +57,7 @@ publish: ## Publish built package to PyPI
 %:
 	@true
 
-.PHONY: help notebook-docs notebook-docs-debug serve docs lint fmt test test-live csv-export h5ad build publish
+.PHONY: help notebook-docs notebook-docs-debug serve docs lint fmt test test-live csv-export h5ad release build publish
 
 help:
 	@echo 'Usage: make <command>'

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "valency-anndata"
-version = "0.1.1"
+version = "0.2.0"
 description = "Experimental tooling to support notebook analysis of polislike data"
 readme = "README.md"
 authors = [

scripts/release.py

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+instructions = """
+1. Checkout `main` branch.
+2. Edit and stage files (no commit yet).
+    i. Update CHANGELOG.md
+        - Add the new version heading below "Unreleased".
+        - Write "_No changes yet._" in "Unreleased" section.
+        - Add the link for the new version tag. (bottom of changelog)
+        - Update the "Unreleased" comparison link (bottom) to the new tag.
+    ii. Update `pyproject.toml` to new version.
+3. Rebuild the package artifacts:
+    $ make build
+4. Publish to PyPI:
+    $ make publish
+5. Commit change as "Release vX.Y.Z" and push.
+6. Create a GitHub release.
+    - See: https://github.com/patcon/valency-anndata/releases/new
+    - Name the new tag `vX.Y.Z`
+    - Set the title `vX.Y.Z`
+    - Copy the new changelog text into the body.
+    - Attach the wheel and tar build files from `dist/`
+"""
+
+print(instructions.strip())