Expand Contributing.md to invite contributions

[gassmoeller]

The current contributing.md is a bit short. It sets some guidelines for contributions and discusses the process for users already familiar with contributing to github projects, but little else. For a small project like this a 10 page Contributing.md is maybe too much, but a bit of additional information would be good. E.g. the sentence This project welcomes and values your contributions. means a lot for potential contributors. Since most of this test is templateable there are good examples out there, e.g. maybe you can take over some of the text from https://contributing.md/example/.

Related to openjournals/joss-reviews#7357.

[gassmoeller]

Oh I just found the following in README.md: Contributions are more than welcome using the fork and pull request approach. which is a good start, but should be repeated in the Contributing.md. Still the text of Contributing.md should be extended.

Just to clarify, the JOSS criteria for contributing statements are: Are there clear guidelines for third parties wishing to 1. Contribute to the software 2. Report issues or problems with the software 3. Seek support

[daavid00]

Thanks @gassmoeller for your comment.

Now the CONTRIBUTING.md includes (after the PR #97) information about:

• Contribute to the software
• Report issues or problems with the software
• Seek support

In addition, in the section for Contribute to the software, information of how to run the tests locally is added.

A new Section in the documentation has been also created for the Contributing guidelines (after the PR #99):

https://opm.github.io/pyopmspe11/contributing.html