From 3c8eef99cbe34dac54815e135e67c8ad8bcd6c07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pablo Hoffman <pablo@pablohoffman.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 01:35:17 -0200
Subject: [PATCH] docs/contributing: added note explaining what Scrapy contrib
 is

---
 docs/contributing.rst | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/contributing.rst b/docs/contributing.rst
index 4a75de674..3420eecac 100644
--- a/docs/contributing.rst
+++ b/docs/contributing.rst
@@ -102,6 +102,15 @@ Scrapy:
 * Don't put your name in the code you contribute. Our policy is to keep
   the contributor's name in the `AUTHORS`_ file distributed with Scrapy.
 
+Scrapy Contrib
+==============
+
+Scrapy contrib shares a similar rationale as Django contrib, which is explained
+in `this post <http://jacobian.org/writing/what-is-django-contrib/>`_. If you
+are working on a new functionality, please follow that rationale to decide
+whether it should be a Scrapy contrib. If unsure, you can ask in
+`scrapy-developers`_.
+
 Documentation policies
 ======================