id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,stage,has_patch,needs_docs,needs_tests,needs_better_patch,easy,ui_ux 14401,Add a contributing HOWTO page for new contributors,Gabriel Hurley,Gabriel Hurley,"There has been repeated talk of consolidating the ""community wisdom"" and ""the spirit of contributing to Django"" in a way that's more accessible and to-the-point for new users in a way that the current contributing docs may not be. Most recently Russell mentioned it in this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_frm/thread/9ebc3e57d539d1ff I would like to put such a page in the official docs together, and to that end I have created a wiki page to serve as the basis for the eventual patch: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/ContributingHowTo",,closed,Documentation,dev,,fixed,contributing,Gabriel Grant,Accepted,1,0,0,0,0,0