[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] add CONTRIBUTING.md

Stefano Sabatini stefasab at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 17:07:32 CEST 2015


On date Monday 2015-10-05 15:26:46 -0800, Lou Logan encoded:
> For the Github users to ignore.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lou Logan <lou at lrcd.com>
> ---
>  CONTRIBUTING.md | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 36 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 CONTRIBUTING.md
> 
> diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..4bccf25
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
> @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
> +# Contributing to FFmpeg
> +
> +FFmpeg is a big project, but we like seeing patches from new contributors.
> +You can get started by reading the [Developer Documentation]
> +(https://ffmpeg.org/developer.html).
> +
> +## A note to Github users
> +
> +**FFmpeg development, including patch reviews, occurs on the ffmpeg-devel
> +mailing list, so most developers do not view Github pull requests.
> +Therefore, Github pull requests should be avoided because they will
> +likely be not be noticed.**

typo: likely not be noticed

[...]

I wonder if adding the contents to README.md is not a better choice

Note also since we're writing about github, that the README.md will
have a better visibility there, since it is shown on the project main
page:
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg

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