Merge pull request #1881 from asford/main

Add section describing autotick-bot behavior in updating_pkgs.rst

Author: beckermr

src/maintainer/updating_pkgs.rst

@@ -67,6 +67,11 @@ When a new version of a package is released on PyPI/CRAN/.., we have a bot that
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 The `regro-cf-autotick-bot <https://github.com/regro/autotick-bot>`__ continuously searches on a loop for any PyPI releases, GitHub releases, and any other sources of versions when any updates are released. The source code that gets executed in the loop comes from the `cf-scripts repository <https://github.com/regro/cf-scripts>`__, which contains the code to detect versions and submit PRs. Visit `cf-scripts <https://regro.github.io/cf-scripts/index.html>`__ to read more about it.
 
+The bot creates updates via inspection of the upstream release and will always update the ``source`` section and build version in the `recipe metadata <https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda-build/en/latest/resources/define-metadata.html#>`_.
+As an experimental feature, the autotick bot can also be configured to verify or update the recipe's requirements for `Grayskull <https://github.com/conda-incubator/grayskull>`_-compatible recipes. 
+This may help maintain packages with frequent requirements changes or specific requirements version pins, however this feature is not as extensively verified and proposed updates should be reviewed.
+(See the :ref:`bot` section in ``conda-forge.yml``)
+
 Sometimes the bot may take several hours to search for these updates. You can also check `status of version updates <https://conda-forge.org/status/#version_updates>`__ for all the pending version updates. These version updates are pending either because an updated version was found, but a PR wasn't opened yet, or because the bot might have had an error while making the PR.
 If you can't find a version here, then the chances are that the bot couldn't find it either.