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This was prompted by #11403

Changes include:

  • General streamlining of markdown
  • Remove outdated references, e.g. to Python 2 / how to install Python 3
  • Mention the "type school" discussions repo, typing-sig mailing list
  • Remove roadmap, since there isn't really a mypy core team anymore
  • More concretely link to "good first issue" page, etc. Hopefully this
    is a better experience than the somewhat common case of gitter posts
    like "I know Python, please help me contribute" that don't
    really go anywhere
  • Consolidate contributing information in CONTRIBUTING.md
  • Remove issue tracker conventions, since the template does a pretty
    good job and the rest is either common sense or never looked at

This was prompted by python#11403

Changes include:
- General streamlining of markdown
- Remove outdated references, e.g. to Python 2 / how to install Python 3
- Mention the "type school" discussions repo, typing-sig mailing list
- Remove roadmap, since there isn't really a mypy core team anymore
- More concretely link to "good first issue" page, etc. Hopefully this
  is a better experience than the somewhat common case of gitter posts
  like "I know Python, please help me contribute" that don't
  really go anywhere
- Consolidate contributing information in CONTRIBUTING.md
- Remove issue tracker conventions, since the template does a pretty
  good job and the rest is either common sense or never looked at
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Nice refreshment! Thanks for doing this!

Co-authored-by: Xuanda Yang <[email protected]>
@hauntsaninja hauntsaninja merged commit 3d82f6f into python:master Oct 31, 2021
@hauntsaninja hauntsaninja deleted the mdmd branch October 31, 2021 04:56
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One other change that I'd like to see that's related to this is making the developer documentation more prominent. Right now, the link to the developer documentation is barely mentioned once at the bottom of CONTRIBUTING.md, which makes it very easy to not notice that it exists unless you're specifically looking for developer documentation.

I think we could improve this by moving that link to either the top of CONTRIBUTING.md or the Contributing section of the README.

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very reasonable, feel free to make a PR

tushar-deepsource pushed a commit to DeepSourceCorp/mypy that referenced this pull request Jan 20, 2022
This was prompted by python#11403

Changes include:
- General streamlining of markdown
- Remove outdated references, e.g. to Python 2 / how to install Python 3
- Mention the "type school" discussions repo, typing-sig mailing list
- Remove roadmap, since there isn't really a mypy core team anymore
- More concretely link to "good first issue" page, etc. Hopefully this
    is a better experience than the somewhat common case of gitter posts
    like "I know Python, please help me contribute" that don't
    really go anywhere
- Consolidate contributing information in CONTRIBUTING.md
- Remove issue tracker conventions, since the template does a pretty
    good job and the rest is either common sense or never looked at
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