[Biopython-dev] Adding a CONTRIBUTING.rst file for GitHub?

João Rodrigues j.p.g.l.m.rodrigues at gmail.com
Wed Apr 1 17:26:13 UTC 2015


Hi all,

Created a gist with a mock-up. I used some paragraphs of the
contribution-guide.org page as well.

https://gist.github.com/JoaoRodrigues/d34402046890094aa42e

Feel free to edit, maybe it's a bit too bulky for such a file?

Cheers,

João

Em qua, 1 de abr de 2015 às 17:27, João Rodrigues <
j.p.g.l.m.rodrigues at gmail.com> escreveu:

> Hi Peter,
>
> Nice idea, didn't know such a file existed. I can have a look at it today.
>
> Cheers,
>
> João
>
> Em qua, 1 de abr de 2015 às 17:20, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>
> escreveu:
>
>> Dear Biopythoneers,
>>
>> Some of you may be aware of the GitHub convention of
>> having a file name CONTRIBUTING (or CONTRIBUTING.md
>> or I assume CONTRIBUTING.rst) in the root folder which gets
>> shown to people automatically during a pull request etc:
>>
>> https://github.com/blog/1184-contributing-guidelines
>>
>> I think we should do this too, and can move/copy some
>> of the content from the contributing chapter of the
>> tutorial: Doc/Tutorial/chapter_contributing.tex
>>
>> Assuming it works, I would prefer CONTRIBUTING.rst since
>> we already use restructured text for Python docstrings etc.
>>
>> Given this is a plain text file, we could include it in the
>> source code releases (via the MANIFEST.in file).
>>
>> Does this seem like a good idea? Does anyone want to
>> write a draft (based on the LaTeX file)?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> P.S. At this point, is *.rst widely used enough that we
>> could simply rename README to README.rst (and
>> get rid of the symlink used to get it rendered on the
>> main GitHub page?)
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