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Feature: Add CONTRIBUTING.md scaffold

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Read the linked issue #21 and the referenced Puppet and factory_girl_rails CONTRIBUTING.md examples first. Done means adding a general CONTRIBUTING.md to create-module with agreed guidance on checking issues, proposing work, forking, branching, testing, and opening a pull request.

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Description

@dshaw suggested we should add a CONTRIBUTING.md file that outlines directions in contributing.
https://github.com/nodeconf/Adventure-UNCONF/issues/21

One example provided by github themselves was puppet
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/puppetlabs/puppet/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
or from factory_girl_rails
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl_rails/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Should the scaffolding be a general outline? Something likes this?
1.) Check past issues to see if the feature request has been made.
2.) Something about suggesting/requesting in the project's issues page
3.) Fork the project
4.) Review the code
5.) branch code from master, add feature, test feature, push branch aka make pull request

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Dominant language
JavaScript
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Forks
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Getting set up

This project ships no dev container, Dockerfile or contributing guide, so setting up is up to you: start from its README, and see our first-contribution guide for the general steps.

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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