rails/rails — pull request #7677 by schneems (2012-09-18 01:09:25+00:00)
Title: Update Contributing Guide

There are a number of issues I've seen repeatedly come up in github issues I think we can fix by having them in this file. From minor issues like improper whitespace, to major ones like bug fixes and features getting abandoned because authors don't know how to properly rebase or squash.

While we already have a large amount of contribution information no http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.html it still requires a user to click through and read the guide. My experience with readme's and wiki's on github is that most users expect the readme to summarize all topics, and any additional links to expand on them. Similarly it would be beneficial to our potential contributors to have all this information available at a glance on the contribution guide.

Inspiration for additional information from: http://contribute.md/ and @hone

For a preview check out: https://github.com/schneems/rails/blob/schneems/contribute/CONTRIBUTING.md