+1 Fantastic idea ~ David Smiley Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 7:50 AM Jan Høydahl <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Should we consider adding a CONTRIBUTING(.md) file to the solr git repo? > > Currently we have our wiki page > 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 and will display a link when someone > opens a PR ( > https://docs.github.com/en/communities/setting-up-your-project-for-healthy-contributions/setting-guidelines-for-repository-contributors > ) > * 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. > > Jan > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
