New-Maintainer-Checklist: be more explicit.

Note some additional ways to help, gotchas and how to get started.
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Mike McQuaid 2017-03-22 21:25:44 +00:00
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@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ your contributions around $THEIR_CONTRIBUTIONS.
We would like to invite you to have commit access. There are no obligations,
but we'd appreciate your continuing help in keeping on top of contributions.
The easiest way to do this is to watch the Homebrew/brew and
Homebrew/homebrew-core repositories on GitHub to provide help and code review
and to pull suitable changes.
A few requests:
@ -25,12 +28,15 @@ A few requests:
button in "create a merge commit" mode for Homebrew/brew or "squash and
merge" for a single formulae change. If in doubt, check with e.g. GitX that
you've not accidentally added merge commits
- still create your branches on your fork rather than in the main repository
- if still in doubt please ask for help and we'll help you out - these are
probably worth a read:
- https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Brew-Test-Bot-For-Core-Contributors.md
- https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Maintainer-Guidelines.md
- possibly everything else in the documentation
- still create your branches on your fork rather than in the main repository.
Note GitHub's UI will create edits and reverts on the main repository if you
make edits or click revert on the Homebrew/brew repository rather than your
own fork.
- if still in doubt please ask for help and we'll help you out
- please read:
- http://docs.brew.sh/Brew-Test-Bot-For-Core-Contributors.html
- http://docs.brew.sh/Maintainer-Guidelines.html
- possibly everything else on http://docs.brew.sh
How does that sound?