From 64e8fa9199fb345e017c8ef5299ca69cee01ab4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: unclejack Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 16:49:17 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] CONTRIBUTING: add guidelines regarding email This adds guidelines around reaching the maintainers. Emails shouldn't be sent to maintainers. GitHub mentions should be used instead. Signed-off-by: Cristian Staretu --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index ae2dcdd32b..e499e1a9d6 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -345,6 +345,12 @@ guidelines for the community as a whole: to an email you are potentially sending to a large number of people. Please consider this before you update. Also remember that nobody likes spam. +* Don't send email to the maintainers: There's no need to send email to the + maintainers to ask them to investigate an issue or to take a look at a + pull request. Instead of sending an email, GitHub mentions should be + used to ping maintainers to review a pull request, a proposal or an + issue. + ### Guideline violations — 3 strikes method The point of this section is not to find opportunities to punish people, but we