Split contributing to its own file

This is to make the GitHub community health check happier.

2 files changed, 21 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.rst b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9d3de46
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+============
+Contributing
+============
+If you would like to contribute to Pydora please visit the project's
+`GitHub page <https://github.com/mcrute/pydora>`_ and open a pull request with
+your changes. To have the best experience contributing, please:
+
+* Don't break backwards compatibility of public interfaces
+* Write tests for your new feature/bug fix
+* Ensure that existing tests pass
+* Update the readme/docstrings, if necessary
+* Follow the coding style of the current code-base
+* Ensure that your code is PEP8 compliant
+* Validate that your changes work with Python 2.7+ and 3.3+
+
+All code is reviewed before acceptance and changes may be requested to better
+follow the conventions of the existing API.
+
+The build system runs ``python setup.py validate`` on all supported Python
+versions. You can, and should, run this on your pull request before submitting.
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 5da48e1..776d522 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -189,23 +189,7 @@ need to download the keys yourself you can find them at the link below.
 
 Contributing
 ============
-If you would like to contribute to Pydora please visit the project's
-`GitHub page <https://github.com/mcrute/pydora>`_ and open a pull request with
-your changes. To have the best experience contributing, please:
-
-* Don't break backwards compatibility of public interfaces
-* Write tests for your new feature/bug fix
-* Ensure that existing tests pass
-* Update the readme/docstrings, if necessary
-* Follow the coding style of the current code-base
-* Ensure that your code is PEP8 compliant
-* Validate that your changes work with Python 2.7+ and 3.3+
-
-All code is reviewed before acceptance and changes may be requested to better
-follow the conventions of the existing API.
-
-The build system runs ``python setup.py validate`` on all supported Python
-versions. You can, and should, run this on your pull request before submitting.
+See `CONTRIBUTING <https://github.com/mcrute/pydora/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst>`_
 
 Contributors
 ============