Should we move the contributing guidelines from root into Sphinx documentation?

[fabcor-maxiv]

I'm wondering, should we move the contents of CONTRIBUTING.md so that its only in the sphinx documentation and simply only have a link pointing to the part in CONTRIBUTING.md. I know that CONTRIBUTING.md is automatically included but it can be a bit confusing.

Originally posted by @marcus-oscarsson in mxcube/mxcubeweb#1283 (comment)

[fabcor-maxiv]

This should be done for mxcubeweb as well. And it also brings the question: how do we keep contributing guidelines in sync in both web and core?

[marcus-oscarsson]

We can simply link from mxcubeweb to the "contributing" section in mxubecore ?

[fabcor-maxiv]

We can simply link from mxcubeweb to the "contributing" section in mxubecore ?

I was under the impression that there were differences in the contributing guidelines between core and web, so that would not be a "simply do" thing. But I have not looked closely enough yet, so maybe it is indeed simple : )

[marcus-oscarsson]

I've not read them very recently so I cant really tell for certain, but our idea was always to keep them as similar as possible so I would be surprised if there are bigger incompatible changes. If there are some I guess we can make on web specific section (if really needed) and then link to the rest in mxcubecore. The python part should in my opinion be the same, then there might be some UI specific things.