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[Docs] Refresh contributing guide and README#4237

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Summary

  • "Open an issue first" section: added a prominent section at the top of CONTRIBUTING.md encouraging contributors to open detailed issues for bugs/features rather than jumping straight to a PR. Explains that maintainers prefer to implement code changes themselves for efficiency, while still welcoming doc PRs and pre-discussed changes.
  • Recommend uv: dev setup now uses uv venv + uv pip install -e ".[dev]" instead of generic venv/conda. README also mentions uv instead of conda. (suggested in this slack thread). Basically, "let's be opinionated on the tooling".
  • Streamlined PR steps: consolidated format/quality/test/commit steps, removed the pre-commit hooks section, simplified test examples to use pytest directly.

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Documentation-only changes; the main risk is confusing contributors if the new preferred workflow/tooling guidance is inaccurate or too strict.

Overview
Adds a prominent “open an issue first” policy to CONTRIBUTING.md, clarifying when PRs are welcome and setting expectations for AI/agent-assisted submissions.

Refreshes contributor workflow docs by recommending uv for dev setup, consolidating the make style/make quality guidance, simplifying pytest examples, and removing the pre-commit hooks section; README.md now also highlights uv as the recommended install path.

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- Recommend `uv` for dev setup (uv venv + uv pip install), drop conda mention
- Add prominent "open an issue first" section for bug reports and feature requests
- Streamline the PR workflow steps (12 → 11), simplify test examples
- README: recommend uv for installation

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@Wauplin Wauplin requested a review from hanouticelina May 19, 2026 15:25
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The docs for this PR live here. All of your documentation changes will be reflected on that endpoint. The docs are available until 30 days after the last update.

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Much better! hopefully that helps reduce the number of sloppy PRs

Comment thread CONTRIBUTING.md
Co-authored-by: célina <hanouticelina@gmail.com>
@Wauplin Wauplin merged commit ad16f86 into main May 19, 2026
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@Wauplin Wauplin deleted the update-contributing-guide branch May 19, 2026 15:40
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This PR has been shipped as part of the v1.16.0 release.

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