DOC: Add Contributing Guide

Author: mjuraga

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+# ![HAProxy](assets/images/haproxy-weblogo-210x49.png "HAProxy")
+
+## Contributing guide
+
+This document is a short guide for contributing to this project.
+
+## API Specification - Development guide
+
+Data Plane API is generated using [go-swagger](https://github.com/go-swagger/go-swagger) from the swagger spec found [here](https://github.com/haproxytech/dataplaneapi-specification/blob/master/build/haproxy_spec.yaml) using the following command.
+
+```
+./swagger generate server -f haproxy_spec.yaml \
+    -A "Data Plane" \
+    -t $GOPATH/src/github.com/haproxytech/ \
+    --existing-models github.com/haproxytech/models \
+    --exclude-main \
+    --skip-models \
+    -s dataplaneapi \
+    --tags=Discovery \
+    --tags=Information \
+    --tags=Specification \
+    --tags=Transactions \
+    --tags=Sites \
+    --tags=Stats \
+    --tags=Global \
+    --tags=Frontend \
+    --tags=Backend \
+    --tags=Bind \
+    --tags=Server \
+    --tags=Configuration \
+    --tags=HTTPRequestRule \
+    --tags=HTTPResponseRule \
+    --tags=BackendSwitchingRule \
+    --tags=ServerSwitchingRule \
+    --tags=TCPResponseRule \
+    --tags=TCPRequestRule \
+    --tags=Filter \
+    --tags=StickRule \
+    --tags=LogTarget \
+    --tags=Reloads \
+    --tags=ACL \
+    --tags=Defaults
+```
+
+This command generates some of the files in this project, which are marked with // Code generated by go-swagger; DO NOT EDIT.
+comments at the top of the files. These are not to be edited, as they are overwritten when specification is changed and the above-mentioned command is run. If you want to change those files, please change the specification where neccessary and then generate them again.
+
+## Commit Messages and General Style
+
+For commit messages and general style please follow the haproxy project's [CONTRIBUTING guide](https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING) and use that where applicable.

README.md

@@ -4,45 +4,6 @@
 
 **Data Plane API** is a sidecar process that runs next to HAProxy and provides API endpoints for managing HAProxy. It requires HAProxy version 1.9.0 or higher.
 
-## API Specification - Development guide
-
-Data Plane API is generated using [go-swagger](https://github.com/go-swagger/go-swagger) from the swagger spec found [here](https://github.com/haproxytech/dataplaneapi-specification/blob/master/build/haproxy_spec.yaml) using the following command.
-
-```
-./swagger generate server -f haproxy_spec.yaml \
-    -A "Data Plane" \
-    -t $GOPATH/src/github.com/haproxytech/ \
-    --existing-models github.com/haproxytech/models \
-    --exclude-main \
-    --skip-models \
-    -s dataplaneapi \
-    --tags=Discovery \
-    --tags=Information \
-    --tags=Specification \
-    --tags=Transactions \
-    --tags=Sites \
-    --tags=Stats \
-    --tags=Global \
-    --tags=Frontend \
-    --tags=Backend \
-    --tags=Bind \
-    --tags=Server \
-    --tags=Configuration \
-    --tags=HTTPRequestRule \
-    --tags=HTTPResponseRule \
-    --tags=BackendSwitchingRule \
-    --tags=ServerSwitchingRule \
-    --tags=TCPResponseRule \
-    --tags=TCPRequestRule \
-    --tags=Filter \
-    --tags=StickRule \
-    --tags=LogTarget \
-    --tags=Reloads \
-    --tags=ACL \
-    --tags=Defaults
-```
-
-This command generates some of the files in this project, which are marked with //DO NOT EDIT comments at the top of the files. These are not to be edited, as they are overwritten when specification is changed and the above-mentioned command is run. If you want to change those files, please change the specification and then generate them again.
 
 ## Dependencies
 
@@ -151,4 +112,8 @@ Test it out with curl, note that you need user/pass combination setup in HAProxy
 curl -u <user>:<pass> -H "Content-Type: application/json" "http://127.0.0.1:5555/v1/"
 ```
 
-If you are using secure passwords, supported algorithms are: md5, sha-256 and sha-512.
+If you are using secure passwords, supported algorithms are: md5, sha-256 and sha-512.
+
+## Contributing
+
+If you wish to contribute to this project please check [Contributing Guide](CONTRIBUTING.md)