From 4f1e560b21eb26f18eb8da4d5837b285f548be11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roberto Tyley <roberto.tyley@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 21:24:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Help users to contribute to the right place, which is often
 BC

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 .github/contributing.md          | 5 +++++
 .github/issue_template.md        | 7 +++++++
 .github/pull_request_template.md | 3 +++
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .github/contributing.md
 create mode 100644 .github/issue_template.md
 create mode 100644 .github/pull_request_template.md

diff --git a/.github/contributing.md b/.github/contributing.md
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+Spongy Castle is a repackage of **Bouncy Castle**, targeted at Android, with no substantial differences to the code (just renaming of packages, etc). The GitHub repository for Bouncy Castle can be found at https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java .
+
+This means that if you think you have a bug in Spongy Castle that's not specific to Android, you first need to check whether the problem can be reproduced in the Bouncy Castle code base. If the problem originates in Bouncy Castle, you'll need to raise an issue with the Bouncy Castle project to get it fixed - once that fix is released, I can make a fresh release of Spongycastle based on that updated version.
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diff --git a/.github/issue_template.md b/.github/issue_template.md
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+<!-- 
+Does this issue relate specifically to the Spongy Castle project? Spongy Castle is a repackage of **Bouncy Castle**, targeted at Android, with no substantial differences to the code (just renaming of packages, etc).
+
+If you're seeing strange behaviour, please verify that the behaviour is _different_ to what the corresponding version of Bouncy Castle does. If there's a problem with Bouncy Castle, please raise an issue at https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/issues . 
+
+If you have question about how to use Spongy Castle correctly, it's best to raise a question on https://stackoverflow.com/ tagged with [`spongycastle`](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/spongycastle).
+-->
diff --git a/.github/pull_request_template.md b/.github/pull_request_template.md
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+<!-- 
+Check that this change is specific to the Spongy Castle project, and could not be applied to the underlying [Bouncy Castle](https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java) project.
+-->