doc: direct people to the mailing list

Since the move to Github, we've started to receive lots of
introductory questions to the bug tracker. I posit this is because
most projects on Github don't have mailing lists, so the culture on
Github is to use the Issue Tracker as a discussion forum.

The Go project doesn't use the Issue Tracker as our first point of
communication. This CL updates CONTRIBUTING.md (which is linked when
you file a bug or send a pull request), to mention that we have a
mailing list.

It certainly won't stop all the errant bug reports, but it should
help.

Change-Id: Id8fbfd35b73f5117617dff53b1e72d5b5276388b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/3002
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 6444e76b5ccba334be90b2ee458a65e27d36a552..0ba13d34b774c130c9cb0f3345dfa1205af52ce3 100644 (file)
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ When filing an issue, make sure to answer these five questions:
 4. What did you expect to see?
 5. What did you see instead?
 
+General questions should go to the [golang-nuts mailing list](https://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts) instead of the issue tracker.
+The gophers there will answer or ask you to file an issue if you've tripped over a bug.
 
 ## Contributing code