[lucene] branch main updated: LUCENE-10184: mention of opening a Jira issue (#781)

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The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/main by this push:
     new 459d3615202 LUCENE-10184: mention of opening a Jira issue (#781)
459d3615202 is described below

commit 459d3615202f97e4a75bdffef0e8791b7e414ad9
Author: Tomoko Uchida <to...@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Apr 4 20:09:39 2022 +0900

    LUCENE-10184: mention of opening a Jira issue (#781)
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 CONTRIBUTING.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 2f9467e75fe..5815de7d33e 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -77,6 +77,10 @@ You have two options to contribute your work: you can either create a patch and
 
 Please be patient. Committers are busy people too. If no one responds to your patch after a few days, please make friendly reminders. Please incorporate others' suggestions into into your patch if you think they're reasonable. Finally, remember that even a patch that is not committed is useful to the community.
 
+### Opening a Jira issue
+
+You may want to open a Jira issue before opening a pull request or creating a patch. This is especially required when adding a [CHANGES](./lucene/CHANGES.txt) entry. If your contribution is a small one (such as fixing typo in documentation) this can be optional.
+
 ### Opening a pull request
 
 Please refer to [GitHub's documentation](https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests) for an explanation of how to create a pull request. The pull request title should start with the Jira issue number that your work is related to, this way your pull request will get automatically linked from the Jira issue.