Mailing the story:

One of the most important resources that an open source project can provide to potential contributors is contributor guidelines. When eager new contributors rush over to your project to make their first open source contribution, they rely on your contributor guidelines to be their guiding hand. That means that contributor guidelines should be easy to read, thorough, and friendly. You'll find a template for contributor guidelines for a particular git workflow below. In case you are interested in developing your own, here are some tips and tricks: read more