It's interesting to look at how other projects handle this. The node.js contributor page is a good example that strikes a balance between enthusiastically encouraging people to get involved and the slightly darker warnings about patches that might not get accepted:
https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Contributing The equivalent page for WebKit is much more focussed on the mechanics of contributing patches, and provides little guidance: http://www.webkit.org/coding/contributing.html Best wishes Jeremy On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 2:50 PM, PMario <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 29, 2:50 pm, rakugo <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've had a good at a first version of guidelines >> The idea of this text is that it would be linked to or part >> ofhttps://github.com/TiddlyWiki/tiddlywiki/blob/master/README >> Please help me finalise this so we can do a better job of helping >> developers contribute to the TiddlyWiki project. > The text is fine for me. > > I think it should be linked at the readme. The readme should be a > readme.md and have some promotion and info links only. > A cool logo and some basic Info + Links see below. > > links > > * Info for users: linkTo <<User Info page>> > * Info for contributors: linkTo <<We love contributors page>> > > <<User Info page>> > ** tiddlywiki.com > ** tiddlywiki.org .. which imo could have some more pep too. > ** back to main link > > > <<We love contributors page>> > ** the "We love contributors" rules > ** issues are tracked at: <<link to github issues>> > ** Info for users. <<User Link page>> > ** back to main link > > -m > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWikiDev" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en. > > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] http://www.tiddlywiki.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en.
