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David Eric Pugh reassigned SOLR-15682: -------------------------------------- Assignee: David Eric Pugh > Add a CONTRIBUTING file > ----------------------- > > Key: SOLR-15682 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-15682 > Project: Solr > Issue Type: Task > Components: documentation > Reporter: Jan Høydahl > Assignee: David Eric Pugh > Priority: Major > > As [discussed in > dev-list|https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/raa4a0538fb7b32ebf4ec2d9a26bf04680b001b2723b70633eb06bcb4%40%3Cdev.solr.apache.org%3E], > we should add a {{CONTRIBUTING.md}} file to serve as the first introduction > for how to contribute: > {quote}Currently we have our wiki page > [HowToContribute|https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SOLR/HowToContribute], > which is linked from README.md. But there has been complaints lately that > this wiki page is old and needlessly complex / long. > Some benefits of a CONTRIBUTING file are: > * People immediately understand what to expect when they see the file > (visibility) > * GitHub has [built-in support for > it|https://docs.github.com/en/communities/setting-up-your-project-for-healthy-contributions/setting-guidelines-for-repository-contributors] > and will display a link when someone opens a PR. > * We can author it from scratch, with better, clearer structure > The file can of course rely on linking to dev-docs, wiki and website as > needed, so the file can likely stay quite compact. > {quote} > -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.1#820001) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@solr.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@solr.apache.org