Re: Note Well & GitHub

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Sun, 15 July 2018 12:41 UTC

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From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2018 08:41:43 -0400
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Subject: Re: Note Well & GitHub
To: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 11:24 AM Brian E Carpenter
<brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 1) There is a list for this: ietf-and-github@ietf.org
> 2) There was an IESG statement early last year. I can't
> find it on the web site, but I used it to write this:
> https://github.com/becarpenter/animaproto/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

The same text is here:
https://github.com/martinthomson/i-d-template/blob/master/template/CONTRIBUTING.md

The important thing to note is that using a file with this name
ensures that notices are displayed in certain key places for
first-time contributors.  We might argue the relative effectiveness of
such measures, but I don't think that it's OK.