emkornfield commented on code in PR #258:
URL: https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/pull/258#discussion_r1633590123


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CONTRIBUTING.md:
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@@ -29,3 +29,138 @@ Recommendations and requirements for how to best contribute 
to Parquet. We striv
 ### License
 By contributing your code, you agree to license your contribution under the 
terms of the APLv2:
 https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/blob/master/LICENSE
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+### Additions/Changes to the Format
+
+Note: This section applies to actual functional changes to the specification.
+Fixing typos, grammar, and clarifying concepts that would not change the
+semantics of the specification can be done as long a comitter feels comfortable
+to merge them. When in doubt starting a discussion on the dev mailing list is
+encouraged.
+
+The general steps for adding features to the format are as follows:
+
+1. Discuss changes on the developer mailing list ([email protected]).
+   Often times it is helpful to link to a draft pull request to make the
+   discussion concrete. This step is complete when there is lazy consensus. 
Part
+   of the consensus is whether it sufficient to provide 2 working
+   implementations as outlined in step 2 or if demonstration of the feature 
with
+   a down-stream query engine is necessary to justify the feature (e.g.

Review Comment:
   Right, I think a lot of features will not need this per @etseidl point on a 
previous revision, this helps avoid extraneous features that sound good in 
practice but don't provide much value in practice.  Other areas where this is 
more likely to apply could be for more complicated indexing schemes.



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