2026-02-05 nightly release (b7d9102)

Author: pytorchbot

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -169,7 +169,10 @@ Tests that require internet access should be in
 Torchvision uses [Google style](http://sphinxcontrib-napoleon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/example_google.html)
 for formatting docstrings. Length of line inside docstrings block must be limited to 120 characters.
 
-Please, follow the instructions to build and deploy the documentation locally.
+All documentation is built for each PR and contains a preview on the PR.
+However, it is often useful to build the docs locally when making a lot of
+documentation changes. Please, follow the instructions to build and deploy the
+documentation locally.
 
 #### Install requirements
 
@@ -209,6 +212,35 @@ You can also choose to only build a subset of the examples by using the
 example ``EXAMPLES_PATTERN="transforms" make html`` will only build the examples
 with "transforms" in their name.
 
+#### Serving docs locally (if building from a GPU env)
+
+If you're developing locally, you can just open the generated `index.html` file
+in your browser.
+
+If instead you're using a remote machine, you can use a combination of a simple
+python HTTP server and port forwarding to serve the docs locally. This allows
+you to iterate on the documentation much more quickly than relying on PR
+previews.
+
+To do so, after following the above doc build steps, run the following from the
+`docs/build/html` folder:
+
+```
+python -m http.server 8000 # or any free port
+```
+
+This will open up a simple HTTP server serving the files in the build directory.
+If this is done on a remote machine, you can set up port forwarding from your
+local machine to access the server, for example:
+
+```
+ssh -L 9000:localhost:8000 $REMOTE_DEV_HOST
+```
+
+Now, you can navigate to `localhost:9000` on your local machine to view
+the rendered documentation.
+
+
 ### New architecture or improved model weights
 
 Please refer to the guidelines in [Contributing to Torchvision - Models](https://github.com/pytorch/vision/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING_MODELS.md).