Create CONTRIBUTING.md

[jasonblais]

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[mkraft]

@jasonblais What are the absolute minimum things a contributor would need to know before submitting a pull request?

Does specific knowledge of the labels system and how they're used by the PMs qualify as required knowledge that would preclude a contributor from submitting a PR?

What about other steps of the review process? Do they need to know all steps? Some steps? Any steps at all?

Once the minimum required knowledge is determined then I would have two subsequent questions:

1. Which required knowledge can we then make obsolete?
2. Finally, what are the minimum number of words we can use to describe our paired-down list of required knowledge?

[jasonblais]

I can think about it some more, but I just copied this file from https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

We do have plans to make the contribution guidelines brief, an early draft can be found here https://mattermost-developer-documentation.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/commits/ca4b55e329e9e4c22fb71b41b45f748053795b76/contribute/getting-started/contribution-checklist/

[jasonblais]

The review process could be separated into its own page and linked from CONTRIBUTING.md if a contributor is interested to learn more about it.

[mkraft]

Ah so this is just a copy/paste of the existing docs with a new process in the works: sounds like some good improvements are in the works and that's great! 👍

[cpanato]

need rebase

[jasonblais]

@cpanato I don't know how to rebase :/

[cpanato]

@jasonblais

$ git fetch -p
$ git checkout jasonblais-patch-2
$git rebase -i origin/master
$git push -f origin jasonblais-patch-2

[cpanato]

i can do that as well :)

[cpanato]

done

[jasonblais]

Thank you :)