doc: instructions on how to initialize the dev environment #916

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minimum dependency versions	3m 29s
style	51s
py3.13 unit tests	3m 5s
doc	23s
py3.12 unit tests	3m 24s
py3.11 unit tests	3m 7s
py3.10 unit tests	3m 10s
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