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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 0f68c92..3b734f9 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -145,3 +145,12 @@ Release steps: - Push a new tag, e.g.: `git tag v0.1 && git push origin --tags` - This will trigger a deployment. Verify that this completes successfully and that the new version can be installed from pypi with `pip install` + +## Pre-Releases +Pre-release builds are convenient for letting testers try out in-development changes. Versions with +the suffix `.dev` (among others) can be deployed to PyPI and installed by users with `pip install --pre`, +and are otherwise ignored by `pip install`. See python packaging docs on +[pre-release versioning](https://packaging.python.org/guides/distributing-packages-using-setuptools/#pre-release-versioning) +for more details. + +A pre-release build for requests-cache will automatically be published for **any commits to the dev branch.** |