Developer guidelines

[fnattino]

• Describe release procedure (update DESCRIPTION and NEWS.md - only header ideally..)
• Add template for PR to add line to NEWS.md
• Are new contributors also authors? both DESCRIPTION and CITATION.cff file should be updated (right now they are already not synced!)

[fnattino]

Also related #36

[cforgaci]

See usethis helper functions for creating contributing guidelines, the code of conduct and issue template: https://usethis.r-lib.org/reference/tidyverse.html

For the PR template, see my suggestion in CityRiverSpaces/CRiSp#56

[cforgaci]

• Describe release procedure (update DESCRIPTION and NEWS.md - only header ideally..)
• Are new contributors also authors? both DESCRIPTION and CITATION.cff file should be updated (right now they are already not synced!)

These are guidelines for the maintainer. Where are these usually written down?

[fnattino]

I would still include them in the developers guide, maybe as a separate section.

See e.g. the developers guide for a big Python project (Iris): https://scitools-iris.readthedocs.io/en/latest/developers_guide/contributing_getting_involved.html