diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 1535f7b52..f38f840fb 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -2,6 +2,18 @@ Contributing to Paper ========================== PaperMC has a very lenient policy towards PRs, but would prefer that you try and adhere to the following guidelines. +## Use a Personal Fork and not Organization +Paper will routinely modify your PR for you to rebase it on latest or take care of any minor nitpicks that we can +just solve for you instead of making you go back for a trivial item. + +However, if you use an Organization for the PR, this prevents Paper from doing this, and will require us to manually +merge it and close the PR instead of it being marked as the purple merged. + +We much prefer to have merged PR's show as merged, so please do not use organizations repo's for PR as GitHub sadly +does not support maintainers pushing to them. + +See [https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/1681](https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/1681) + ## Understanding Patches Patches to Paper are very simple, but center around the directories 'Paper-API' and 'Paper-Server'