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authorJosh de Kock <josh@itanimul.li>2016-09-18 00:41:46 +0100
committerJosh de Kock <josh@itanimul.li>2016-09-18 10:02:13 +0100
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parentff0ff33b0563ad083febba6d856762e4b5d24fd9 (diff)
downloadffmpeg-ef42c1de2b430ec90ed9931ba823e154714368bc.tar.gz
Add CONTRIBUTING.md
TimothyGu (https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pull/153#issuecomment-143274708) suggested doing this a while ago, but it was never done. Adding as pull requests seem to be still coming through. Signed-off-by: Josh de Kock <josh@itanimul.li>
-rw-r--r--CONTRIBUTING.md4
-rw-r--r--README.md3
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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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@@ -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**.
+
+See [https://ffmpeg.org/developer.html#Contributing](https://ffmpeg.org/developer.html#Contributing) for more information.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -45,5 +45,4 @@ GPL. Please refer to the LICENSE file for detailed information.
Patches should be submitted to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list using
`git format-patch` or `git send-email`. Github pull requests should be
-avoided because they are not part of our review process. Few developers
-follow pull requests so they will likely be ignored.
+avoided because they are not part of our review process and will be ignored.