In order to make releasing look less like black magic I've worked on automating stuff a bit more (has landed in master) and on writing fairly detailed documentation: https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/5424. Please have a look if you're interested.Hi all,We branched 0.16.x in early May, so it's time to start thinking about branching 0.17.x sometime soon. If anyone would be interested in being the release manager for 0.17.x, or co-managing it with me, that would be very welcome.