Merge pull request #515 from effigies/pre_release

MRG: Update authors, changelog

Ran through the first few steps of http://nipy.org/nibabel/devel/make_release.html

Author: matthew-brett

.mailmap

@@ -28,10 +28,15 @@ Basile Pinsard <[email protected]> bpinsard <[email protected]>
 Basile Pinsard <[email protected]> bpinsard <[email protected]>
 Nguyen, Ly <[email protected]> lxn2 <[email protected]>
 Ben Cipollini <[email protected]> Ben Cipollini <[email protected]>
+Chris Markiewicz <[email protected]> Christopher J. Markiewicz <[email protected]>
 Chris Markiewicz <[email protected]> Christopher J. Markiewicz <[email protected]>
 Chris Markiewicz <[email protected]> Christopher J. Markiewicz <[email protected]>
 Chris Markiewicz <[email protected]> Chris Johnson <[email protected]>
 Jaakko Leppäkangas <[email protected]> jaeilepp <[email protected]>
 Ariel Rokem <[email protected]> arokem <[email protected]>
 Oliver P. Hinds <[email protected]> ohinds <[email protected]>
 Marc-Alexandre Côté <[email protected]> Marc-Alexandre Cote <[email protected]>
+Satrajit Ghosh <[email protected]> Satrajit Ghosh <[email protected]>
+Jasper J.F. van den Bosch <[email protected]> Jasper <[email protected]>
+Gregory R. Lee <[email protected]> Gregory R. Lee <[email protected]>
+Demian Wassermann <[email protected]> Demian Wassermann <[email protected]>

Changelog

@@ -24,6 +24,43 @@ Gerhard (SG) and Eric Larson (EL).
 
 References like "pr/298" refer to github pull request numbers.
 
+Upcoming Release
+================
+
+New features
+------------
+
+* CIFTI support (pr/249) (Satra Ghosh, Michiel Cottaar, BC, CM, Demian
+  Wassermann, MB)
+
+Enhancements
+------------
+
+* Support for alternative header field name variants in .PAR files
+  (pr/507) (Gregory R. Lee)
+* Various enhancements to streamlines API by MC: support for reading TRK
+  version 1 (pr/512); concatenation of tractograms using `+`/`+=` operators
+  (pr/495); function to concatenate multiple ArraySequence objects (pr/494)
+* Support for numpy 1.12 (pr/500, pr/502) (MC, MB)
+* Allow dtype specifiers as fileslice input (pr/485) (MB)
+
+Bug fixes
+---------
+
+* Miscellaneous MINC reader fixes (pr/493) (Robert D. Vincent, reviewed by CM,
+  MB)
+
+Maintenance
+-----------
+
+* Documentation update (pr/514) (Ivan Gonzalez)
+* Update testing to use pre-release builds of dependencies (pr/509) (MB)
+* Better warnings when nibabel not on path (pr/503) (MB)
+
+API changes and deprecations
+----------------------------
+
+
 2.1 (Monday 22 August 2016)
 ===========================
 

doc/source/index.rst

@@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ contributed code and discussion (in rough order of appearance):
 * `Ariel Rokem`_
 * Eleftherios Garyfallidis
 * Jaakko Leppäkangas
+* Syam Gadde
+* Robert D. Vincent
+* Ivan Gonzalez
+* Demian Wassermann
 
 License reprise
 ===============

tools/refresh_readme.py

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 from __future__ import print_function
 
 import os
+import runpy
 
 readme_lines = []
 with open('README.rst', 'rt') as fobj:
@@ -16,8 +17,7 @@
     else:
         raise ValueError('Expected comment not found')
 
-rel = {}
-execfile(os.path.join('nibabel', 'info.py'), rel)
+rel = runpy.run_path(os.path.join('nibabel', 'info.py'))
 
 readme = ''.join(readme_lines) + '\n' + rel['LONG_DESCRIPTION']