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CONTRIBUTING: add guidelines regarding email

This adds guidelines around reaching the maintainers. Emails shouldn't
be sent to maintainers. GitHub mentions should be used instead.

Signed-off-by: Cristian Staretu <cristian.staretu@gmail.com>
unclejack 9 years ago
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@@ -345,6 +345,12 @@ guidelines for the community as a whole:
   to an email you are potentially sending to a large number of people. Please
   to an email you are potentially sending to a large number of people. Please
   consider this before you update. Also remember that nobody likes spam.
   consider this before you update. Also remember that nobody likes spam.
 
 
+* Don't send email to the maintainers: There's no need to send email to the
+  maintainers to ask them to investigate an issue or to take a look at a
+  pull request. Instead of sending an email, GitHub mentions should be
+  used to ping maintainers to review a pull request, a proposal or an
+  issue.
+
 ### Guideline violations — 3 strikes method
 ### Guideline violations — 3 strikes method
 
 
 The point of this section is not to find opportunities to punish people, but we
 The point of this section is not to find opportunities to punish people, but we