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commit 39e8627d68f206a5252304718f28927a49ea1c49
Author: James Turton <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Wed Jan 6 17:02:33 2021 +0200

    Reword advice regarding documentation in contribution guidelines.
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 .../010-apache-drill-contribution-guidelines.md             | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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a/_docs/developer-information/contribute-to-drill/010-apache-drill-contribution-guidelines.md
 
b/_docs/developer-information/contribute-to-drill/010-apache-drill-contribution-guidelines.md
index f2f544a..eefa147 100644
--- 
a/_docs/developer-information/contribute-to-drill/010-apache-drill-contribution-guidelines.md
+++ 
b/_docs/developer-information/contribute-to-drill/010-apache-drill-contribution-guidelines.md
@@ -136,9 +136,18 @@ JIRA's automatically sent messages. If you change your 
mind, note this in a
 new comment, rather than editing an older comment. The issue should preserve
 this history of the discussion.
 
-### Welcome to update the docs together!
+### Contributing documentation
 
-We shared the opinion that these do not need the full `JIRA -> PR -> Review -> 
Merge` cycle. Welcome to join our `Slack` discussion and update the document, 
we can quickly push these changes. (Mistakes in `gh-pages` branch can't hurt 
users' deployments.)
+Documentation contributions are most welcome and there are many opportunities 
for them including
+
+1. features which have been implemented but not completely documented and
+2. HOWTOs for using Drill with other popular software.
+
+Documentation committed into the `gh-pages` branch does not have any effect on 
the Drill code base and so does not require a JIRA ticket or a corresponding PR 
from a repo fork.  It does still require a Drill committer to check it and push 
it into the Drill code repo.  This means 
+
+1. Drill committers can add documentation with little bureaocratic overhead.
+2. Anyone can send documentation to a Drill committer (find us on Slack or the 
mailing lists) as
+   markdown or plain text and the committer can incorporate it with little 
bureaocratic overhead.
 
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