rtd document PyPi packaging sequence

doc/rtd/developer.rst

@@ -110,3 +110,19 @@ to the title of the plot. Example output is shown in :numref:`prof_vis_10t_1r`.
 
    Visualization of TECA's run time profiler for the test_bayesian_ar_detect
    regression test, run with 1 MPI rank and 10 threads.
+
+
+Creating PyPi Packages
+----------------------
+The typical sequence for pushing and testing to PyPi is as follows. Be sure to
+add an rc number to the version in setup.py when testing since these are unique
+and cannot be reused.
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    python3 setup.py build_ext
+    python3 setup.py install
+    python3 setup.py sdist
+    python3 -m twine upload --repository-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/*
+    pip3 install --index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ teca
+