DOC: Add information on fetching tags for contributors building panda…

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* DOC: Add information on fetching tags for contributor build issue.

* DOC: Change markdown link into rST link for docs.

doc/source/development/contributing_codebase.rst

@@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ install pandas) by typing::
     your installation is probably fine and you can start contributing!
 
 Often it is worth running only a subset of tests first around your changes before running the
-entire suite (tip: you can use the [pandas-coverage app](https://pandas-coverage-12d2130077bc.herokuapp.com/))
+entire suite (tip: you can use the `pandas-coverage app <https://pandas-coverage-12d2130077bc.herokuapp.com/>`_)
 to find out which tests hit the lines of code you've modified, and then run only those).
 
 The easiest way to do this is with::

doc/source/development/contributing_environment.rst

@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ due to limitations in setuptools.
 
 The newer build system, invokes the meson backend through pip (via a `PEP 517 <https://peps.python.org/pep-0517/>`_ build).
 It automatically uses all available cores on your CPU, and also avoids the need for manual rebuilds by
-rebuilding automatically whenever pandas is imported(with an editable install).
+rebuilding automatically whenever pandas is imported (with an editable install).
 
 For these reasons, you should compile pandas with meson.
 Because the meson build system is newer, you may find bugs/minor issues as it matures. You can report these bugs
@@ -228,6 +228,14 @@ To compile pandas with meson, run::
    # If you do not want to see this, omit everything after --no-build-isolation
    python -m pip install -ve . --no-build-isolation --config-settings editable-verbose=true
 
+.. note::
+   The version number is pulled from the latest repository tag. Be sure to fetch the latest tags from upstream
+   before building::
+
+      # set the upstream repository, if not done already, and fetch the latest tags
+      git remote add upstream https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas.git
+      git fetch upstream --tags
+
 **Build options**
 
 It is possible to pass options from the pip frontend to the meson backend if you would like to configure your