From 6045437ad1b0bb8e285f5cef9267f668700eb3de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marie Lucca <francinelucca@github.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2026 21:44:05 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] docs: document publishing releases

Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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 CONTRIBUTING.md | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 580711e3..b360e818 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -28,3 +28,9 @@ The QUnit test suite can also be ran in the browser.
 ```
 $ open test/test.html
 ```
+
+## Publishing
+
+To publish a new version to npm, [create a GitHub release](https://github.com/github/relative-time-element/releases/new) with the new version tag. If the tag does not exist yet, create it from the release page while creating the release.
+
+Publishing the release automatically triggers the [Publish workflow](https://github.com/github/relative-time-element/actions/workflows/publish.yml), which tests the package and publishes the tagged version to npm.