This is a collection of CONTRIBUTING file templates. It's officially inspired in github/gitignore initiative.
With some luck it could be used by Github to populate Github.com interface like the github/gitignore does.
Some years ago Github has written about Contributing Guidelines in its blog presenting CONTRIBUTING files and recommending PRs in repositories without it. It seems to be a strong evidence that in Open Source ecossystem this is an important policy to set.
However when you're starting something open sourced you don't know exactly what points are important to mention in this kind of document. It happens with licenses, for example, and it was well solved by http://choosealicense.com.
It happens with .gitignore files as well and was well solved with, already mentioned, github/gitignore project. The
first CONTRIBUTING sample comes from gulpjs/gulp
repository which looks really great and complete for me.
Help us adding more samples!
The content of this project itself is licensed under the MIT license.