going to publish

1.9.0rc0

to pypi now. i am on the master branch, i have reset --hard to

3afceb99a98736c3ecadb590121b3b770ed2ac02

(the

1.9.0rc0

commit), and am going to run the release script. if anything breaks ping me asap. i will be unavailable from 3-4pm california time today and will make sure someone else watches for any release issues during that time.