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Grouping CONTRIBUTING into digestable sections
The current document is very much a wall of text. This commit begins to re-structure that information into logical groups.
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A good way to help is to test, and report bugs.
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See http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html if you
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want to help that way. Testing is invaluable in making a piece
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# Contributing to Monero
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A good way to help is to test, and report bugs. See
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[How to Report Bugs Effectively (by Simon Tatham)](http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html)
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if you want to help that way. Testing is invaluable in making a piece
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of software solid and usable.
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## General Guidelines
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* Comments are encouraged.
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* If modifying code for which Doxygen headers exist, that header must be modified to match.
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* Tests would be nice to have if you're adding functionality.
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Patches are preferably to be sent via a github pull request. If that
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can't be done, patches in "git format-patch" format can be sent
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(eg, posted to fpaste.org with a long enough timeout and a link
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you're making a buggy patch, then a later patch to fix the bug,
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both patches should be merged).
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## Commits and Pull Requests
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Commit messages should be sensible. That means a subject line that
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describes the patch, with an optional longer body that gives details,
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documentation, etc.
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Comments are encouraged.
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If modifying code for which Doxygen headers exist, that header must
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be modified to match.
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When submitting a pull request on github, make sure your branch is
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rebased. No merge commits nor stray commits from other people in
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your submitted branch, please. You may be asked to rebase if there
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@ -32,5 +38,3 @@ are conflicts (even trivially resolvable ones).
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PGP signing commits is strongly encouraged. That should explain why
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the previous paragraph is here.
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Tests would be nice to have if you're adding functionality.
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