OSGeo Graduation: Create documentation providing sufficient detail for an experience programmer to contribute patches or a new module in accordance with the project’s programming conventions

[dstenger]

Please also see #393.

[dstenger]

Pull requests are the common way to contribute code to project.

TODO: Create wiki page.

[jodygarnett]

A CONTRIBUTING.md file is the usual GitHub convention to communicate how to contribute a patch, this has the advantage of being shown to potential contributors when they make a pull request.

This is a good place to document or link to your expectations on matters such:

• as code formatting
• any documentation or quality assurance expectations
• communicate that the work being contributed will be distributed by the OGC using an open source license (this is annoying enough that many projects end up with a contributor license agreement just to be sure).

Examples from a few OSGeo projects:

• GeoServer CONTRIBUTING.md
• PROJ CONTRIBUTING.md

See GitHub community checklist here for your project.

[ghobona]

2020-11-17 OSGeo Sprint

The page describing how to contribute to the project has been created at https://github.com/opengeospatial/teamengine/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md