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necolas/issue-guidelines
A set of guidelines for submitting issues and pull requests on projects
A template CONTRIBUTING.md by Nicolas Gallagher meant to be copied into your own projects. It covers how to report bugs, request features, and submit pull requests. Useful mostly as a starting point circa 2013, when this kind of document was less common.
Clear, no-nonsense structure that covers the three things contributors actually need: bug reports, feature requests, and PRs. Comes from a credible author (creator of Normalize.css) so it was battle-tested in real open-source projects. Short enough that people will actually read it.
Last touched in 2022 but the content reads like 2013 — no mention of conventional commits, semantic versioning expectations, or CI requirements that most projects now depend on. A single-file repo with 422 stars is mostly a historical artifact; GitHub's own docs and tools like `@github/contributing` have long since made this redundant. Anyone adopting it today would need to rewrite half of it anyway.