diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 82149cb3..b01657a3 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -67,4 +67,39 @@ Some good tools for profiling memory are ``mprof``. For example, one can memory
 
 Then one could plot the memory usage:
 
-    mprof plot
\ No newline at end of file
+    mprof plot
+
+# Making a Release
+
+1. Ctrl+f and replace all version indicators with the new version. For example,
+
+`0.5.0dev0` -> `0.5.0`
+
+2. Write release notes in `whats_new.rst`
+
+3. Build package locally and test
+
+
+    python -m build
+
+4. Upload to Test PyPi
+
+
+    twine upload --repository-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/*
+
+
+5. Build docs locally
+
+    make -C build-doc
+
+6. Push docs under `doc/_build/html/` to the `stable/` folder in `gh-pages` branch
+
+
+7. Make release to PyPi
+
+
+    twine upload dist/*
+
+or if you have two-factor authentication enabled: <https://pypi.org/help/#apitoken>
+
+    twine upload dist/* --repository mne-connectivity
diff --git a/azure-pipelines.yml b/azure-pipelines.yml
index afdab8af..1bbe583e 100644
--- a/azure-pipelines.yml
+++ b/azure-pipelines.yml
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ trigger:
     include:
       - main
       - maint/*
+pr:
+  branches:
+    include:
+      - '*'  # must quote since "*" is a YAML reserved character; we want a string
 
 jobs:
   - job: Windows
@@ -34,7 +38,7 @@ jobs:
           pip install git+https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-python
           pip install --upgrade .[test] codecov
         displayName: "Install dependencies with pip"
-      - script: python setup.py develop
+      - script: pip install .
         displayName: "Install MNE-Connectivity"
       - bash: |
           set -e