Release process for this repo #45

Tagging @anton-abushkevich since I see he is the last person to do this. I want to confirm a few items here:

I have a PR open #44 that aims to release a version of this library for use in the other upstream projects (WebAPI). In reviewing with @chrisknoll, I'm planning to close that out since merging into the 'released' branch was not the agreed upon approach. Instead, we'd like to do a v1.4.0 release of this repo that effectively incorporates this change: d97dfd3.

I just wanted to confirm with you the following approach for doing a release here:

• Create a release-1.4.0 branch from master and add a commit to remove the "-SNAPSHOT" suffix in the version.
• Make a v1.4.0 tag on the release-1.4.0 branch
• Update the "released" branch to point to the v1.4.0 tag
• Delete the release-1.4.0 branch
• Increment the version on master to v1.5.0-SNAPSHOT

For this repo specifically, I don't anticipate that we'll ever have a patch since this repo's focus is on the specifications (interfaces) to the various analyses.

Let me know your thoughts and if you are agreeable to the plan above, I'll make these changes with @chrisknoll.