Having a document with contributing guidelines helps any project gather meaningful and useful contributions, and that's why it's encouraged by Github. They also give instructions on how to set it up.
We already have some of that in the README.md:
information on how to contribute new data, and
instructions on how to set up a development environment for the website.
A new CONTRIBUTING.md file should have that and also include:
instructions for opening new issues and pull requests
explicit csv dialect and schema orientation
frictionless data package validation for new data submissions
Having a document with contributing guidelines helps any project gather meaningful and useful contributions, and that's why it's encouraged by Github. They also give instructions on how to set it up.
We already have some of that in the
README.md:A new
CONTRIBUTING.mdfile should have that and also include: