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RELEASE.md

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+# Releasing Stencil Store
+
+## Development Releases
+
+Development Releases (or "Dev Releases", "Dev Builds") are installable instances of Stencil Store that are:
+- Published to the npm registry for distribution within and outside the Stencil team
+- Built using the same infrastructure as production releases, with less safety checks
+- Used to verify a fix or change to the project prior to a production release
+
+### How to Publish
+
+Only members of the Stencil team may create dev builds of Stencil Store.
+To publish the package:
+1. Navigate to the [Stencil Store Dev Release GitHub Action](https://github.com/ionic-team/stencil-store/actions/workflows/release-dev.yml) in your browser.
+2. Select the 'Run Workflow' dropdown on the right hand side of the page
+3. The dropdown will ask you for a branch name to publish from. Any branch may be used here.
+4. Select 'Run Workflow'
+5. Allow the workflow to run. Upon completion, the output of the 'publish-npm' action will report the published version string.
+
+Following a successful run of the workflow, the package can be installed from the npm registry like any other package.
+
+### Publish Format
+
+Dev Builds are published to the NPM registry under the `@stencil/store` scope.
+Unlike production builds, dev builds use a specially formatted version string to express its origins.
+Dev builds follow the format `BASE_VERSION-dev.EPOCH_DATE.SHA`, where:
+- `BASE_VERSION` is the latest production release changes to the build were based off of
+- `EPOCH_DATE` is the number of seconds since January 1st, 1970 in UTC
+- `SHA` is the git short SHA of the commit used in the release
+
+As an example: `2.1.0-dev.1677185104.7c87e34` was built:
+- With v2.1.0 as the latest production build at the time of the dev build
+- On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 13:48:17 UTC
+- With the commit `7c87e34`