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

[Lou Logan]

On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 18:37:47 +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:

> If we keep CONTRIBUTING.md, better to make it independent from Github
> - that is I'm suggesting that we move all contributing indications to
> README.md, or we keep them in a separate file CONTRIBUTING.md, as
> proposed by this patch.
> 
> In case we adopt the second solution (which I'm fine with), then you
> could mention CONTRIBUTING.md in README.md and remove the
> corresponding section, since otherwise you're duplicating the
> information stated in README.md.

After looking at it again I decided to drop this patch. I don't really
like adding even more verbosity in yet another location for users to
(not) read; especially just to have a notice on the Github FFmpeg page.