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Suggestion: add contribution guidelines

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Description

Sometimes pull-requests contain unecessary changes (e.g #147).

It could be a good idea to help contributors what is expected of them by adding a clear contribution guidelines document. I always like to refer this great post by @migueldeicaza: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Dec-31.html as I myself fell into this trap more than once on different projects (not all open-source).

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Review pull request #147 and the linked contribution-guidelines post first. Then identify the repository's documentation conventions and define a contribution guidelines document covering expected pull-request changes. Done means the guidelines are added in an appropriate location and clearly explain contributor expectations.

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Assessment

Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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