diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 014e542..1dde79e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -43,6 +43,21 @@ The command will collect information from GitHub and generate two output files i
 `packagename_issues.json`: this file contains information about issues for the repository of interest.
 `packagename_PRs.json`: this file contains information associated with pull requests for the repository of interest.
 
+## Publish command
+
+The `publish` command can be used to generate a report website, such
+as https://devstats.scientific-python.org, from the downloaded data.
+
+This functionality is still under heavy development.
+
+To try it out, first install the publishing dependencies.
+
+```
+pip install "devstats[publish]"
+```
+
+(or, if you cloned the repository, `pip install -e ".[publish]"`.)
+
 ## Development instructions
 
 If you wish to contribute to devstats:
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d0de3f1..2c9c8a5 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ version = "0.2rc0.dev0"
 requires-python = ">=3.8"
 description = "Developer tool for scientific Python libraries"
 license = {file = "LICENSE"}
-readme = "tREADME.md"
+readme = "README.md"
 maintainers = [
   {name = "Scientific Python", email = "devstats@discuss.scientific-python.org"}
 ]
@@ -19,16 +19,18 @@ classifiers = [
 dependencies = [
   "click",
   "requests",
-  "jupyter",
-  "notebook",
-  "numpy",
-  "networkx",
 ]
 
 [project.scripts]
 devstats = "devstats.__main__:cli"
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
+publish = [
+  "jupyter",
+  "notebook",
+  "numpy",
+  "networkx"
+]
 lint = ["pre-commit == 4.2.0"]
 dev = ["changelist == 0.5"]