From: Coby Chapple Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 16:58:09 +0000 (+0000) Subject: extract out new contributing guidelines to CONTRIBUTING.md X-Git-Url: https://source.dussan.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs%2Fpull%2F826%2Fhead;p=gitignore.git extract out new contributing guidelines to CONTRIBUTING.md --- diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 918dd5e3..91543ab4 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -1,3 +1,34 @@ -Since this repo includes a large and diverse number of programming languages, frameworks, editors, and ecosystems, it's *very helpful* if you can provide a link to information supporting your pull request. Up-to-date, canonical documentation that mentions the files to be ignored is best. +# Contributing guidelines -This ensures we can efficiently go through pull requests and keep quality high. +We’d love you to help us improve this project. To help us keep this collection +high quality, we request that contributions adhere to the following guidelines. + +- **Provide a link to the application or project’s homepage**. Unless it’s + extremely popular, there’s a chance the maintainers don’t know about or use + the language, framework, editor, app, or project your change applies to. + +- **Provide links to documentation** supporting the change you’re making. + Current, canonical documentation mentioning the files being ignored is best. + If documentation isn’t available to support your change, do the best you can + to explain what the files being ignored are for. + +- **Explain why you’re making a change**. Even if it seems self-evident, please + take a sentence or two to tell us why your change or addition should happen. + It’s especially helpful to articulate why this change applies to *everyone* + who works with the applicable technology, rather than just you or your team. + +- **Please consider the scope of your change**. If your change specific to a + certain language or framework, then make sure the change is made to the + template for that language or framework, rather than to the template for an + editor, tool, or operating system. + +- **Please only modify *one template* per pull request**. This helps keep pull + requests and feedback focused on a specific project or technology. + +In general, the more you can do to help us understand the change you’re making, +the more likely we’ll be to accept your contribution quickly. + +Please also understand that we can’t list every tool that ever existed. +Our aim is to curate a collection of the *most common and helpful* templates, +not to make sure we cover every project possible. If we choose not to +include your language, tool, or project, it’s not because it’s not awesome.