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Posted to dev@couchdb.apache.org by emjayess <gi...@git.apache.org> on 2013/02/21 18:12:25 UTC

couchdb pull request: adds CONTRIBUTING.md

GitHub user emjayess opened a pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/43

    adds CONTRIBUTING.md

    1st draft commit of @janl's docs contributions content
    (http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/contributing.html)
    as a github project contribution guideline, as per
    (http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/contributing.html)
    
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    :+1: 
    The **upside** to maintaining a [bonafide CONTRIBUTING policy file](https://github.com/blog/1184-contributing-guidelines) here in the root of the project tree, is that it becomes easily discoverable by folks who arrive at `apache/couchdb` project on github to open issues and submit pull requests... the policy is revealed thusly above both the "create new issue" and "create new pull request" forms:
    ![Screen Shot 2013-02-21 at 10 56 57 AM](https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/194904/181156/bc9c6332-7c47-11e2-9f35-fa319020e5fe.png)
    
    :-1: 
    The **downside** is dual-maintenance - keeping this `CONTRIBUTING.md` policy file in sync with the same content in the [`share/doc/src/contributing.rst`](https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/master/share/doc/src/contributing.rst) file (plus whereever the source code contribution guidelines are?).
    
    Unless someone knows of a clever way to reconcile that to NOT be dual-maintenance.

You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:

    $ git pull https://github.com/emjayess/couchdb master

Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:

    https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/43.patch

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commit 902b5fabfef248a89c43a8e721e0bac3b542d1fa
Author: matt j. sorenson <ma...@sorensonbros.net>
Date:   2013-02-21T16:55:45Z

    adds a CONTRIBUTING.md policy file
    
    1st draft commit of @janl's docs contributions content
    (http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/contributing.html)
    as a github project contribution guideline, as per
    (http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/contributing.html)

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