From 60f750afe08516a141d00c8199b2455638c0ee87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Davis Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:26:39 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Adding contributing guidelines. Includes license, workflow, and file formats sections. --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+) create mode 100644 CONTRIBUTING.md diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d830ffc --- /dev/null +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +Contributing Boot Camp Material +=============================== + +Licenses +-------- + +See http://software-carpentry.org/license.html for the licenses covering +Software Carpentry material. By contributing you are agreeing that +Software Carpentry may redistribute your work under these licenses. + +Workflow +-------- + +Software Carpentry uses a development workflow similar to that of +[AstroPy][] and many other open source projects. The AstroPy docs have +excellent sections on: + +* [Getting started with git][astropy-git] +* [Developer workflow][astropy-workflow] + +File Formats +------------ + +### Text + +Text documents should be in [Markdown][] format and compatible +with [Redcarpet][], the engine GitHub uses to render Markdown. + +### Slides + +The preferred format for slide presentations is still to be determined. + +[AstroPy]: http://astropy.org +[astropy-git]: http://astropy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/development/workflow/index.html#getting-started-with-git +[astropy-workflow]: http://astropy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/development/workflow/development_workflow.html +[Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ +[Redcarpet]: https://github.com/vmg/redcarpet -- 2.26.2