Release candidate testing:

• Command line tests pass for a release candidate
• All eight release candidate wheels are built

Releasing to PyPI:

• RC tag(s)s deleted on github
• Release tag cut
• Release notes written
• All eight release wheels built
• Release wheels uploaded to pypi
• tar.gz distribution uploaded to pypi

After release to PyPI and conda-forge/bioconda packages built:

• PyPI page updated
• Zenodo DOI successfully minted upon new github release - see search results
• pip install sourmash installs the correct version
• conda-forge sourmash-minimal-feedstock has updated sourmash-minimal to the correct version
• mamba create -n smash-release -y sourmash installs the correct version

Optional but recommended:

• PR submitted to update pyodide version
• PR submitted to update spack version