From 3a96fb2d1602a29b29b4ab34c8185bf893e4a9ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Jackson Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 15:16:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add @ato's guidelines from Slack discussion. (#81) * Add @ato's guidelines from Slack discussion. * Words are hard. --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index a2d43d9..c4f3696 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -9,3 +9,10 @@ Please ensure your pull request adheres to the following guidelines: * New categories or improvements to the existing categorization are welcome. * Check your spelling and grammar. * The pull request and commit should have a useful title. + +Unsure whether something fits here or not? Answering these questions will help. + +* Is the tool used in a formal web archiving programme? +* Does it archive or capture and preserve other people's data not just backup your own? +* Does it make use of widely accepted web archiving standards ([WARC](https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/), [Memento](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7089), [CDX](https://archive.org/web/researcher/cdx_file_format.php), etc.)? +* Is it focused on a broader sense of web sites and web-like platforms (public, interlinked), and not on individual applications that just happen to use a browser as a runtime environment?