From 5869daa7d6d43b4803ca75351f59fc8340d7f7c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Billy Tat <btat@suse.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 11:30:29 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add note about versioned Rancher docs

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 README.md | 8 ++++++++
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 Rancher Docs
 ------------
 
+## Contributing
+
+We have transitioned to versioned documentation for Rancher (files within `content/rancher`).
+
+New contributions should be made to the applicable versioned directories (e.g. `content/rancher/v2.5` and `content/rancher/v2.0-v2.4`).
+
+Contents under the `content/rancher/v2.x` directory are no longer maintained after v2.5.6.
+
 ## Running for development/editing
 
 The `rancher/docs:dev` docker image runs a live-updating server.  To run on your workstation, run: