From 269c8ed1148a89e21a1d76f372ce1d670ecfd1d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lukas Obermann <lukas.obermann@icloud.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2023 11:33:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] docs: describe version bump command

---
 .npmignore      |  1 +
 CONTRIBUTING.md | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 CONTRIBUTING.md

diff --git a/.npmignore b/.npmignore
index 24a88bf..1dac339 100644
--- a/.npmignore
+++ b/.npmignore
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 .versionrc.json
 .vscode
 CODEOWNERS
+CONTRIBUTING.md
 otjsmd.config.js
 src
 tsconfig.json
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d6d9e5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# Contributing
+
+## Releases
+
+To increase the version of the package, run:
+
+```sh
+npm version <newversion> -m "build(release): v%s"
+```
+
+`<newversion>` needs to be replaced with a valid semantic version such as `major`, `minor` or `patch`.