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Update contributing guide

This change adds a section about working on open issues to encourage
contributors to work on those.
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Anish Athalye 2015-03-22 17:30:19 -04:00
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@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ All kinds contributions to Dotbot are greatly appreciated. For someone
unfamiliar with the code base, the most efficient way to contribute is usually
to submit a [feature request](#feature-requests) or [bug report](#bug-reports).
If you want to dive into the source code, you can submit a [patch](#patches) as
well.
well, either working on your own ideas or [existing issues][issues].
Feature Requests
----------------
@ -34,9 +34,13 @@ to find and fix the bug.
Patches
-------
Before working on substantial changes to the code base, it is *highly
recommended* that you first [open an issue][issue] describing what you intend
to work on.
Want to hack on Dotbot? Awesome!
If there are [open issues][issues], you're more than welcome to work on those -
this is probably the best way to contribute to Dotbot. If you have your own
ideas, that's great too! In that case, before working on substantial changes to
the code base, it is *highly recommended* that you first [open an issue][issue]
describing what you intend to work on.
**Patches are generally submitted as pull requests.** Patches are also
[accepted over email][email].
@ -46,9 +50,12 @@ used in the rest of the project. The version history should be clean, and
commit messages should be descriptive and [properly
formatted][commit-messages].
---
If you have any questions about anything, feel free to [ask][email]!
[issue]: https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot/issues/new
[issues]: https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot/issues
[fork]: https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot/fork
[email]: mailto:me@anishathalye.com
[commit-messages]: http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html