[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add CONTRIBUTING.md

[James Almer]

On 9/17/2016 8:42 PM, Josh de Kock wrote:
> TimothyGu (https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pull/153#issuecomment-143274708) suggested doing this a while ago, but it was never done. As pull requests seem to be still coming through, I thought I'd send a patch to add the notice.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josh de Kock <josh at itanimul.li>
> ---
>  CONTRIBUTING.md | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 CONTRIBUTING.md
> 
> diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..c2b79e4
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
> @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
> +# Note to Github users
> +Patches should be submitted to the [ffmpeg-devel mailing list](https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel) using `git format-patch` or `git send-email`. Github pull requests should be avoided because they are not part of our review process and **will be ignored**.

The wording here is different to the notice in README.md, so
make it either "will be ignored" or "will likely be ignored"
in both.

This patch should be ok in any case.

> +
> +See [https://ffmpeg.org/developer.html#Contributing](https://ffmpeg.org/developer.html#Contributing) for more information.
>