diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c80a3fc..b5174bf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -239,7 +239,8 @@ tarball too.  The Compute Canada clusters monitor this process, and,
 if it succeeds, download the channel tarball and make it available as
 a new release.
 
-This means deployment is as simple as doing
+This means deployment is as simple as doing (please prefix commits
+message with `package: ...` as is done upstream)
 
 ```bash
 git push