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Sam's attempt at a welcoming CONTRIBUTING file. #278

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Please do double-check that what I've written doesn't break the flow of README.md and that I've kept the tone encouraging.

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paddyroddy commented Jan 23, 2024

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Looks beautiful, but can you wrap to ~80 chars for the README?

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[website]: https://github-pages.arc.ucl.ac.uk/python-tooling
[UCL ARC]: https://ucl.ac.uk/arc
[open an issue]: https://github.com/UCL-ARC/python-tooling/issues/new/choose
[Discussions tab]: https://github.com/UCL-ARC/python-tooling/discussions
[RSE]: https://society-rse.org/about/history
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Curious as to why this syntax? Always makes me think of RST

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I like it, but literally only because it doesn't interrupt the flow of the text if you read the raw markdown.

So I can write...

We are actively encouraging users to ask questions and start discussions in the
[discussions tab] of this repository. Does something seem like it's broken?
Please go ahead and [open an issue]!

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For example: I would often read raw markdown by cat ing things in the terminal.

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Yeah I like that bit, less a fan of [][]

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This reads well to me - good balance of getting across key details and being welcoming. Made a few minor suggestions but not strongly wedded to any of them and would be happy for this to go in as is from my perspective.

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samcunliffe commented Jan 23, 2024

Looks beautiful, but can you wrap to ~80 chars for the README?

  • wrap to ~80 chars for the README?

@samcunliffe samcunliffe force-pushed the sc/245-contributing.md branch from 8b8b6ad to d6e33f6 Compare January 23, 2024 17:02
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👨‍🍳💋

@samcunliffe samcunliffe merged commit 14bd74b into main Jan 23, 2024
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dstansby pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jan 23, 2024
... too much development velocity.
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