Document that we conform to SPEC0 version support.

(Finally) closes #362 as per the definition of done in David's last comment.

CONTRIBUTING.md

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 You can omit the `--checkout` option if you're already on the
 branch you want to test.
 
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+#### Python version support
+
+[![SPEC 0 — Minimum Supported Dependencies](https://img.shields.io/badge/SPEC-0-green?labelColor=%23004811&color=%235CA038)](https://scientific-python.org/specs/spec-0000/)
+
+We follow Scientific Python's [SPEC0](https://scientific-python.org/specs/spec-0000/) policy.
+Notably this means our template will support [Python versions for three years after their release](https://scientific-python.org/specs/spec-0000/#support-window), and changes to the template are equired to pass tests in all such python versions.
+(See [the CI checks](./.github/workflows/test.yml) for precise details.)
+
+
 ### Developing the recommended tooling pages
 
 Pages all live in the `docs/pages` sub-directory, and are written in markdown.