Contributing.md can be shown when opening PR via GitHub UI. While we are using tools (git-webkit) to create PR with specific format, it is not easily obvious to new contributors. Let's add Contributing.md mentioning to 1. The way to create PR through git-webkit (and introducing https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/wiki/Contributing link) 2. Not creating a PR though GitHub UI in a normal way (just creating a branch and PR)
Some examples. LLVM https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md FoundationDB https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md Swift https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md Go https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
Additionally, I think it’s better to add a PR template like https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md I guess strongly some people will not read CONTRIBUTING.md because it’s shown as a link. But PR template fills the form to create PR.
PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE sounds good. We should offer the best way for contributors to access to the expected procedure so that we will not waste contributors' time and their patches!
(In reply to Yusuke Suzuki from comment #3) > PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE sounds good. > We should offer the best way for contributors to access to the expected > procedure so that we will not waste contributors' time and their patches! Adding the PR template in https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239347
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