for #299 also add CONTRIBUTING.md

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# How to contribute
+We welcome and appreciate input, ideas, and code from contributors.
+
+Because Firefox Monitor seeks to improve peoples' security behaviors, we do
+not accept product changes lightly. For any user-facing change, please [submit
+an issue for discussion
+first](https://github.com/mozilla/blurts-server/issues/new). To keep our review
+queue streamlined, if you submit your idea as a pull request with code changes,
+we are likely to close it and ask you to submit an issue for discussion first.
+
+Before you submit a new issue, please 
+[search our existing issues](https://github.com/mozilla/blurts-server/issues)
+to see if your idea is already in there. If it is, please add a +1 vote to the
+existing issue. We check our [issues sorted by
+upvotes](https://github.com/mozilla/blurts-server/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc)
+when we plan and prioritize our work.
+
+We triage new, [un-labeled
+issues](https://github.com/mozilla/blurts-server/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+no%3Alabel)
+every week. Once an issue has a label, we consider it triaged, and may not act
+on it again until it is prioritized.
+
+If you submit a PR for code changes, we will try to respond as quickly as we
+can, but please be patient - especially if your change is large.
+
+## Getting started with the code
+blurts-server tries to follow a README-driven development practice, so our
+instructions for installing, running, and testing code are in
+[README.md](https://github.com/mozilla/blurts-server/blob/master/README.md).

public/contribute.json

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 {
   "name": "blurts-server",
-    "description": "The app powering monitor.firefox.com.",
-    "repository": {
-      "url": "https://github.com/mozilla/blurts-server",
-      "license": "MPL2",
-      "tests": "https://travis-ci.org/mozilla/blurts-server/"
-    },
-    "participate": {
-      "home": "https://github.com/mozilla/blurts-server",
-      "docs": "https://github.com/mozilla/blurts-server/blob/master/README.md",
-      "irc": "irc://irc.mozilla.org/#breach-alerts",
-      "irc-contacts": [
-        "groovecoder",
-        "lesleynorton",
-        "nhnt11",
-        "pdehaan"
-      ]
-    },
-    "bugs": {
-      "list": "https://github.com/mozilla/blurts-server/issues",
-      "report": "https://github.com/mozilla/blurts-server/issues/new",
-      "mentored": "https://github.com/mozilla/blurts-server/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22"
-    },
-    "urls": {
-      "prod": "https://monitor.firefox.com",
-      "stage": "https://blurts-server.stage.mozaws.net/",
-      "dev": "https://fx-breach-alerts.herokuapp.com/"
-    },
-    "keywords": [
-      "node",
-      "postgres",
-      "security",
-      "api",
-      "email"
+  "description": "The app powering monitor.firefox.com.",
+  "repository": {
+    "url": "https://github.com/mozilla/blurts-server",
+    "license": "MPL-2.0",
+    "tests": "https://travis-ci.org/mozilla/blurts-server/"
+  },
+  "participate": {
+    "home": "https://github.com/mozilla/blurts-server",
+    "docs": "https://github.com/mozilla/blurts-server/blob/master/README.md",
+    "irc": "irc://irc.mozilla.org/#breach-alerts",
+    "irc-contacts": [
+      "groovecoder",
+      "lesleynorton",
+      "nhnt11",
+      "pdehaan"
     ]
+  },
+  "bugs": {
+    "list": "https://github.com/mozilla/blurts-server/issues",
+    "report": "https://github.com/mozilla/blurts-server/issues/new",
+    "mentored": "https://github.com/mozilla/blurts-server/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22"
+  },
+  "urls": {
+    "prod": "https://monitor.firefox.com",
+    "stage": "https://blurts-server.stage.mozaws.net/",
+    "dev": "https://fx-breach-alerts.herokuapp.com/"
+  },
+  "keywords": [
+    "node",
+    "postgres",
+    "security",
+    "api",
+    "email"
+  ]
 }