Kontributor guidelines

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Hello,

After making some contribution to project I have some questions about contribution guidline - I didn’t found any document about it so will ask here.
Kotlin team:

  1. Do you have some commit message guidelines or suggestios?(For example:“Didn’t move issue to fixed state by comment since this decision can be taked only by KT-team”)
  2. I want to contribute to kotlin, I can take any issue with tag ‘newbie’, but what if I found another issue more interesting for me and it without ‘newbie’ tag?
    Can I take it for resolving? And, if yes, how should I notify KT-team to prevent parallel working on this issue?


Maybe it will be helpfull for someone to prevent extra commits: you(kontributor) should’t make variables final unless compiler will require this.

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1. No guidelines are written down, but I'd point you to this link, as an example of a reasonably common set of guidelines. It's OK if you add a YouTrack command to close the issue. In any case please make sure that the issue gets closed when you pull-request is accepted.

  1. You can take any issue. Let us know by commenting it, e.g. “I’m trying to fix this issue”, and occasionally add comments about your progress.

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Thank you, Andrey!

Also I found another codestyle rule:
“Do not include @author tag into the source code” (noted here https://github.com/crazyproger/kotlin/commit/467ae9af0afcd02e8acc3d2637bd8c744d72d591#commitcomment-2444084)