Initial draft of contributing.md.

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+## Contributing
+
+Contributing
+
+When contributing to the development of Hammond, please first discuss the change you wish to make via issue, email, or any other method with the maintainers before making a change.
+
+Please note we have a code of conduct, please follow it in all your interactions with the project.
+
+## Pull Request Process
+
+1. Ensure your code compiles. Run `make` before creating the pull request.
+2. If you're adding new API, it must be properly documented.
+3. The commit message is formatted as follows:
+   ```
+   component: <summary>
+
+   A paragraph explaining the problem and its context.
+
+   Another one explaining how you solved that.
+
+   <link to the bug ticket>
+   ```
+4. You may merge the pull request in once you have the sign-off of the maintainers, or if you
+   do not have permission to do that, you may request the second reviewer to merge it for you.
+
+## Code of Conduct
+We follow the Gnome [Code of Conduct.](https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/CodeOfConduct)

README.md

@@ -7,17 +7,25 @@ This is a prototype of a podcast client written in Rust.
 ![podcasts_view](./assets/podcasts_view.png)
 ![podcast_widget](./assets/podcast_widget.png)
 
+## Getting in Touch
+If you have any questions regarding the
+use or development of Hammond, want to discuss design or simply hang out
+with nice folks, please join us in #hammond on irc.gnome.org.
+
+Sidenote:
+There isn't much documentation yet, so you will probably have question about parts of the Code.
+
+## Quick start
 The following steps assume you have a working installation of rustc and cargo.
 If you dont take a look at [rustup.rs](rustup.rs)
 
-## Quick start:
 ```sh
 git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/alatiera/hammond.git
 cd Hammond/
 cargo run -p hammond-gtk --release
 ```
 
-## Install from soure:
+## Install from soure
 ```sh
 git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/alatiera/hammond.git
 cd Hammond/
@@ -31,37 +39,37 @@ You can run `sudo make uninstall` for removal
 
 And `make clean` to clean up the enviroment after instalation.
 
-### Flatpak:
+### Flatpak
 Flatpak instructions... Soon™.
 
-## Dependancies:
+## Building
+
+###  Dependancies
 
 * Rust stable 1.21 or later.
 * Gtk+ 3.22 or later
+* Meson
 
 **Debian/Ubuntu**:
 ```sh
 apt-get update -yqq
 apt-get install -yqq --no-install-recommends build-essential
-apt-get install -yqq --no-install-recommends libgtk-3-dev
+apt-get install -yqq --no-install-recommends libgtk-3-dev meson
 ```
 
 **Fedora**:
 ```sh
-dnf install -y gtk3-devel glib2-devel openssl-devel sqlite-devel
+dnf install -y gtk3-devel glib2-devel openssl-devel sqlite-devel meson
 ```
 
 If you happen to build it on other distributions please let me know the names of the corresponding libraries. Feel free to open a PR or an Issue to note it.
-
-## Building:
-
 ```sh
 git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/alatiera/Hammond.git
 cd Hammond/
 cargo build --all
 ```
 
-## Overview:
+## Overview
 
 ```sh
 $ tree -d
@@ -82,12 +90,15 @@ $ tree -d
 │       └── widgets     # Contains custom widgets such as Podcast and Episode.
 ```
 
-## Contributing:
+## Contributing
-There alot of thins to be done, take a look at TODO.md or grep for TODO: and FIXME:.
+There alot of thins yet to be done.
+You can find start by taking a look at [Issues](https://gitlab.gnome.org/alatiera/Hammond/issues) or Opening a [New one](https://gitlab.gnome.org/alatiera/Hammond/issues/new?issue%5Bassignee_id%5D=&issue%5Bmilestone_id%5D=).
+You may also want to take a look at [TODO.md](https://gitlab.gnome.org/alatiera/Hammond/blob/master/TODO.md) or grep the source code for `TODO:` and `FIXME:` tags.
 
-to be added: CONTRIBUTING.md
+If you want to contribute, please check the [Contributions Guidelines][contribution-guidelines].
+[contribution-guidelines]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-todo/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
 
-## A note about the project's name:
+## A note about the project's name
 
 The project was named after Allan Moore's character [Evey Hammond](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evey_Hammond) from the graphic novel V for Vendetta.
 

TODO.md

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 
 **General:**
 
-- [ ] Add CONTRIBUTING.md
+- [x] Add CONTRIBUTING.md
+- [ ] Add Issues and Pull Request templates
 - [ ] Write docs