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Added some tips to the contributor docs, namely about removing trailing whitespaces and about mentioning relevant ticket numbers in tests.
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@@ -184,6 +184,12 @@ Miscellaneous
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* Remove ``import`` statements that are no longer used when you change code.
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The most common tools for this task are `pyflakes`_ and `pylint`_.
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* Systematically remove all trailing whitespaces from your code as those
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add unnecessary bytes, add visual clutter to the patches and can also
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occasionally cause unnecessary merge conflicts. Some IDE's can be
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configured to automatically remove them and most VCS tools can be set to
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highlight them in diff outputs.
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* Please don't put your name in the code you contribute. Our policy is to
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keep contributors' names in the ``AUTHORS`` file distributed with Django
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-- not scattered throughout the codebase itself. Feel free to include a
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