From: W. Trevor King Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 15:32:48 +0000 (-0500) Subject: CONTRIBUTING.md: point to external docs on GitHub X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ab46ed1298f959e0d18753d7ec55ed9c13d696ad;p=signed-off-by.git CONTRIBUTING.md: point to external docs on GitHub This translates CONTRIBUTING (from the `contributing` branch) into Markdown using a GitHub URL for the link. Merging this into your project will set it up to use GitHub's CONTRIBUTING infrastructure, and will be used to notify users creating issues and pull requests [1]. GitHub's blob URL syntax is [2]: https://github.com///blob//Path/To/File Like CONTRIBUTING, CONTRIBUTING.md is also released under the CC0 Universal license (see the `license` branch for full text). [1]: https://github.com/blog/1184-contributing-guidelines [2]: https://help.github.com/articles/how-do-i-get-a-permanent-link-from-file-view-to-permanent-blob-url Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King --- diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING.md similarity index 51% rename from CONTRIBUTING rename to CONTRIBUTING.md index 194038e..7509135 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ This project tracks patch provenance and licensing using the Developer Certificate of Origin and Signed-off-by tags initially developed by the Linux kernel project. Because the documentation for this procedure is licensed under the GPLv2, we have chosen not to include -it in our project directly. Instead, please see: +it in our project directly. Instead, please see +[SubmittingPatches][], which is stored in an external repository. - http://git.tremily.us/?p=signed-off-by.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/SubmittingPatches;h=34055986ab836553896f091225448c448a4cc62c;hb=refs/heads/signed-off-by +[SubmittingPatches]: https://github.com/wking/signed-off-by/blob/ab5bce80ad2259b47202b28905efff0d04032709/Documentation/SubmittingPatches