[issue27680] Reduce Github pull request rate

[Steve Holden]

New submission from Steve Holden:

I have seen a relatively large number of pull requests via the Github mirror repository, because would-be contributors presumably just look on Github and, having found Python there, assume this is the place for contributions.

The standard README file gives no clue that the Github repository should not be used as the basis for contributory pull requests, and neither should it.

Fortunately Github will display a README.md file in preference to REAMDE when one is found. This patch adds a message, highly visible to Github users, that they are in the wrong place.

For an indication of how the Github page will then look, visit https://github.com/holdenweb/python/tree/README where the patch is already installed.

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
files: README.patch
keywords: needs review, patch
messages: 271958
nosy: docs at python, holdenweb
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: Reduce Github pull request rate
type: enhancement
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file44004/README.patch

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