Add CONTRIBUTING.md

TimothyGu (https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pull/153#issuecomment-143274708)
suggested doing this a while ago, but it was never done. Adding as pull
requests seem to be still coming through.

Signed-off-by: Josh de Kock <josh@itanimul.li>

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# Note to Github users
+Patches should be submitted to the [ffmpeg-devel mailing list](https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel) using `git format-patch` or `git send-email`. Github pull requests should be avoided because they are not part of our review process and **will be ignored**.
+
+See [https://ffmpeg.org/developer.html#Contributing](https://ffmpeg.org/developer.html#Contributing) for more information.

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 241919193de08730f2f2e13f179476ab9f6c9f76..7d5a7efe9eaa916162d0668f1ebc19966de0dc31 100644 (file)
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -45,5 +45,4 @@ GPL. Please refer to the LICENSE file for detailed information.
 
 Patches should be submitted to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list using
 `git format-patch` or `git send-email`. Github pull requests should be
-avoided because they are not part of our review process. Few developers
-follow pull requests so they will likely be ignored.
+avoided because they are not part of our review process and will be ignored.