From 32f74eba6de95b5057f770bc5a6441cc12d84431 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ivan Herak <herak.ivan@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 10:15:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] NGSTACK-465 add contributing instructions

---
 doc/netgen/INSTALL.md | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/netgen/INSTALL.md b/doc/netgen/INSTALL.md
index 4253ab9ed..3fe831dcb 100644
--- a/doc/netgen/INSTALL.md
+++ b/doc/netgen/INSTALL.md
@@ -32,6 +32,34 @@ CREATE DATABASE <db_name> CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci;
 composer create-project netgen/media-site
 ```
 
+### Create project for contribution
+
+If you are a developer wishing to contribute to the `media-site`, do not use the above `composer create-project` command.
+
+Instead, do the following:
+
+```
+git clone git@github.com:netgen/media-site.git
+cd media-site
+```
+
+If you are contributing to the latest version, skip the next step. Otherwise, take care to checkout the branch you wish to contribute to, for example:
+
+```
+git checkout 1.9
+```
+
+As either way you will not be developing on a tagged (stable) version, you need to modify `composer.json`, please add the following:
+
+```
+"minimum-stability": "dev",
+"prefer-stable": true,
+```
+
+After this, you can run `composer install`, and follow the rest of the instructions.
+
+
+
 Near the end of vendor installation procedure, when asked, be sure to specify
 the correct database connection for the site.