2012/11/25 Andrea Aime <[email protected]>
>
> Hi,
> ....
>
> Now, I've noticed that none of the projects have a README in the root
that would be
> rendered by GitHub in the project home page, and GitHub is actually
nagging us about it.
> Soo.. how about we dedicate that home page to provide just a few pointers
for
> people finding us through GitHub:
> - a set of links to where the community is (site, mailing lists)
> - a quick set of directions to the contributors, in particular, a very
clear message that
> going off your merry way and pop up with a large pull request later is
not a smart approach?
Github also has CONTRIBUTING.md which is a magic file[1]. It shows up when
creating a pull request and/or issue in the web interface with the message
"Please review the guidelines for contributing to this repository."
But a README is still a good idea.
[1] https://github.com/blog/1184-contributing-guidelines
Mark
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