MAINT give pointers to coding style and dev environment

aarchiba · aarchiba · commit 82b19d2023a1 · 2015-08-28T11:35:23.000+02:00
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -23,4 +23,9 @@ through our
 Either way, please be sure to follow our
 [convention for commit messages](http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy-dev/dev/gitwash/development_workflow.html#writing-the-commit-message).
 
+If you are writing new C code, please follow the style described in
+``doc/C_STYLE_GUIDE``.
 
+Suggested ways to work on your development version (compile and run
+the tests without interfering with system packages) are described in
+``doc/source/dev/development_environment.rst``.
