Release v0.6.2

[nkeim]

@caspervdw Thanks for taking care of those Pandas issues! I hope I'm not being too presumptuous by creating this issue.

Major next steps (mostly following the release checklist).

• Draft release notes, reflecting merged PRs
• Close remaining milestone issues/PRs
• Tag release candidate, build, and publish on PyPI
• Build, publish, and review development-branch documentation
• Perform other release candidate checks (Zenodo, conda, etc.)
• Tag final release, build, and publish on PyPI
• Verify Zenodo DOI
• Publish and verify stable documentation
• Merge conda-forge PR
• Verify conda package availability

Were you thinking of doing the release? I ask because since doing 0.6 and 0.6.1 in succession, I've had a pretty good, partially-automated workflow for releases, following the steps on the wiki. So I am volunteering. BUT, it's unlikely I can do much until Monday Jan 15, so if you want to charge ahead with any or all of this, please do!

[caspervdw]

Thanks @nkeim for opening this issue. It was indeed my intention to charge through to a release however I don’t think I can find to finish it anytime soon.
So if you are volunteering: yes please!

[nkeim]

Bumping this for @caspervdw : Any comments on #735 and #749 ? I think they are ready to merge, and I didn't hear back from the author of #735, so if they look OK to you, I think you can just do it. I would love to do the release the next time I get a chance! (Which will be at least a few days from now.)

[caspervdw]

Thanks for reminding me @nkeim. The two PRs are merged so please feel free to tag and release

[nkeim]

Release candidate looks good! I will make the actual release at the next opportunity, possibly late next week.

[nkeim]

All done! Failing CI tests are a GitHub issue. See #755 .