Absence of a contributor guide

[willhs]

Hi. I'm working on an honours project involving HyperNEAT and am interested in making some small contributions to this project. I tried to find a contributor guide / instructions for this project and eventually found some instructions in the developer guide:

If you would like to contribute code back to the Encog project, it is suggested that you fork one of the above projects. You can then issue a pull request for your forked copy of Encog once you complete your changes. If your changes are accepted, they will be merged into the main Encog project. For more information on forking a GitHub project refer to the following URL: https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/

However this was under the heading Acquiring the Encog Core Files in the Building the Encog Core Files chapter which isn't the most obvious place to find such information. Perhaps there could be a dedicated "contributor guidelines" document, even if those guidelines are simple? I'm new to contributing to open source projects, so maybe this feature is needless in this case, however I thought I would ask.

Regards.

[jeffheaton]

Yes good point, and I will improve this. If you have code to contribute to Encog, a pull request works best, along with an example and unit test would be idea.

[jeffheaton]

http://www.heatonresearch.com/encog/contributor/