improve the release process

[mkinney]

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Codecov Report

Merging #282 (24e556b) into master (eaf2951) will not change coverage.
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  Coverage   89.17%   89.17%           
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  Files          13       13           
  Lines        2060     2060           
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  Hits         1837     1837           
  Misses        223      223           

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