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Added a note to CONTRIBUTING about opening an issue before submitting a PR

Jeremy Stretch 8 years ago
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 ## Submitting Pull Requests
 ## Submitting Pull Requests
 
 
+* Be sure to open an issue before starting work on a pull request, and discuss your idea with the NetBox maintainers
+before beginning work​. This will help prevent wasting time on something that might we might not be able to implement.
+When suggesting a new feature, also make sure it won't conflict with any work that's already in progress.
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 * When submitting a pull request, please be sure to work off of branch `develop`, rather than branch `master`.
 * When submitting a pull request, please be sure to work off of branch `develop`, rather than branch `master`.
 In NetBox, the `develop` branch is used for ongoing development, while `master` is used for tagging new
 In NetBox, the `develop` branch is used for ongoing development, while `master` is used for tagging new
 stable releases.
 stable releases.