How hard can it be? I know contribute.md is a shitty wall of text, but
that doesn't make it less important, and each violation will make it
take longer by adding another review round anyway.
And we really don't need lazy pull requests. If you can't be assed to
follow a few simple rules, your code is probably shit or you wanted to
be quick and lazy. Why should we accept it? We're the ones who have to
maintain it and fix bugs in it, and if the contributor is lazy, the
chance of you maintaining it is probably slim as well. On the other
hand, WE the maintainers are not obligated to anything.
Don't say that though, the first contact doesn't need to be negative. I
don't know if the "lazy pull requests" is still too strong, but I can't
tell.
Most files are LGPL anyway by now. contribute.md still requires
contributors to provide changes under LGPL, which should cover changes
to files that are LGPL, as well as GPL files.
I guess there is a hard to balance tradeoff between appearing rude or
dismissive, and making the user think it's ok to not provide essential
information.
I do not understand why github requires adding this crap to source code
repositories themselves, instead of making them part of the repository
configuration. Remove CONTRIBUTING.md to compensate for github crap
accumulating.
