Need a contributor guide

[paulopperman]

Best practices for contributing code

[thescientist13]

Hey @paulopperman , here are a couple thoughts I have on this.

GitHub has a feature that shows when submitting issues or PRs, that shows a link to the content's of the repositories CONTRIBUTING.md (if it exists).
https://github.com/blog/1184-contributing-guidelines

This could allow a couple things

1. Provide a link to a "global" Contributing Guidelines doc, hosted in some sort of "main" repository wiki or on a website
2. The project could also add specific contributing guidelines for the project itself.

In addition, for some uniformity to issues and PRs, GitHub also has a feature for creating templates that will pre-populate when an issue or PR is opened.
https://github.com/blog/2111-issue-and-pull-request-templates

[paulopperman]

@thescientist13, great thoughts! The "global" Contributing Guidelines could live here in the /docs repo and be served as a webpage, and then the individual project specific guidelines could live in the respective repository as CONTRIBUTING.md. We'll want to make sure that the project guidelines talked about in #3 discuss that.