Great, thanks! I found this: https://help.github.com/articles/setting-guidelines-for-repository-contributors/
which describes that these items appear in pull requests. -Marshall On 11/26/2018 10:44 AM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote: > Hi :) > >> On 26. Nov 2018, at 15:41, Marshall Schor <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> One thing I see is that the latest change >> >> https://github.com/apache/uima-uimafit/commit/a78760d158fee9cf7a460a3dce8306b1ba1f3c3c >> >> to fix a typo in the CONTRIBUTING.md, doesn't show up in the Eclipse >> checkout, I >> think because it's located under the .github folder >> (.github/CONTRIBUTING.md). >> >> This folder seems unknown to Eclipse, even when choosing to display ".*" >> resources. > For me, it appears in the Eclipse "Package explorer" if I disable the ".* > resources" filter. > >> What is the reason the CONTRIBUTING.md was put there? > Hm. GitHub Community tips say it's a good idea to have it: > > https://github.com/apache/uima-uimafit/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md > > I believe a link to this is most prominently shown to first-time contributors. > I can see that in the DKPro Core GitHub issue tracker, it is under a > "Helpful resources" heading on the right side when opening an issue. We don't > use the GitHub issue tracker in uimaFIT though. I think it should also show up > when creating new PRs, but currently I cannot verify this. > >> Besides switching to the Eclipse Navigator view, anyone know how to work with >> files in .github in Eclipse? > Use the Package explorer view? > > Cheers, > > -- Richard
