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 Development is done directly to the master branch for now, without much in terms of official approval. Try to use your powers wisely (and no worries, sometimes it breaks and we fix it).
 
-Tags are automatically pushed to our internal artifactory server, so users can install pre-compiled binaries using pip. Note that the version set in `ess/__init__.py` should match the tag.
+Tags are automatically pushed to our internal artifactory server, so users can install pre-compiled binaries using pip.
 
 It is recommended that you set up a couple of git hooks to avoid test failures. Set `pre-commit run` as the pre-commit hook, and `python tests.py` as your pre-push hook. If you do not know how to set up hooks, ask Yngve.