From 96c33e6a57ba6eb7081d6dd5a39a40be4f3aa4c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Darimont Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 14:28:37 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Added Contributing section to readme.md --- README.md | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c607a65dd..ea28ca610 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -13,4 +13,15 @@ Installation instructions are in the docs: ### License -The Spring Data REST Exporter is [Apache 2.0 licensed](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html). \ No newline at end of file +The Spring Data REST Exporter is [Apache 2.0 licensed](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html). + +## Contributing to Spring Data Rest## + +Here are some ways for you to get involved in the community: + +* Get involved with the Spring community on the Spring Community Forums. Please help out on the [forum](http://forum.springsource.org/forumdisplay.php?f=27) by responding to questions and joining the debate. +* Create [JIRA](https://jira.springsource.org/browse/DATAREST) tickets for bugs and new features and comment and vote on the ones that you are interested in. +* Github is for social coding: if you want to write code, we encourage contributions through pull requests from [forks of this repository](http://help.github.com/forking/). If you want to contribute code this way, please reference a JIRA ticket as well covering the specific issue you are addressing. +* Watch for upcoming articles on Spring by [subscribing](http://www.springsource.org/node/feed) to springframework.org + +Before we accept a non-trivial patch or pull request we will need you to sign the [contributor's agreement](https://support.springsource.com/spring_committer_signup). Signing the contributor's agreement does not grant anyone commit rights to the main repository, but it does mean that we can accept your contributions, and you will get an author credit if we do. Active contributors might be asked to join the core team, and given the ability to merge pull requests.