Choose/Create/Pick a CONTRIBUTING.md

[utunga]

Per @jwu910 comments on #17 we need a CONTRIBUTING.md.. I agree. But at the moment not sure what would go on it.

Maybe we can create this over time @DAHuerta ?

[jwu910]

One of the other projects I maintained I used an older version of the contributors covenant template

https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/0/code_of_conduct/

The website offers this in markdown format for easy adaptation and you can easily just drop in emails, org names, etc

Edit: https://github.com/jwu910/check-it-out/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Here's a link to the edits I made to extend it with some of my PR processes that I tried to outline

Edit2: Now that I'm reading back, it looks like I combined my Code of Conduct with CONTRIBUTING lol.

The details around commit message formatting/standardization and PR process are still there

[utunga]

Edit2: Now that I'm reading back, it looks like I combined my Code of Conduct with CONTRIBUTING lol.

Yeah. I was figuring out how to say that. Still its a nice one.

Actually on the subject of outside contributors. Ari and I had a lovely chat to @rabble today.

We talked about dual licensing models and ssb and all that. Truly excellent convo. Anyway outcome of which is we reckin,

Well, uh

Firstly we should do this

• [x] MPL 2.0 LICENSE (instead of AGPL-3.0) (DONE) https://github.com/CashlessSociety/cashless-ui/pull/24

Secondly,

• [ ] We should move to using a contributor license agreement/assignment thing (aka a CLA) of some kind, thus giving the option to be basically 'dual-licensed' == allowing commercial, closed source use by the organisation that owns the copyright.

Possibly we could copy what http://planetary.social are doing - which is apparently that, though to be honest I can't find a CLA mentioned in their Contributing docs (on cursory inspecting)

Interesting they just put the 'Contributing' section right in the README which ain't a bad spot for it TBH (https://github.com/planetary-social/planetary-ios#contributing)

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//CC @jwu910 @DAHuerta

[jwu910]

Sounds like a plan. Best to have someone with more legal advice point us in the right direction with that.

In regards to contributing, basic info is nice in readme, I think CONTRIBUTING.md could be a place with far more detail and we can always link to it