Merge pull request #1 from newrelic/contributing_info

Add contributing information

Author: alejandrodnm

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Guidelines for Contributing Code
+
+At New Relic we welcome community code contributions, and have taken effort to
+make this process easy for both contributors and our development team.
+
+## Branches
+
+The head of master will generally have New Relic's latest release. However,
+New Relic reserves the ability to push an edge to the master. If you download a
+release from this repo, use the appropriate tag. New Relic usually pushes beta
+versions of a release to a working branch before tagging them for General
+Availability.
+
+## Testing
+
+The code includes a suite of unit tests with each package which should be used
+to verify your changes don't break existing functionality.
+
+### Running Tests
+
+Running the test suite is simple.  Just invoke:
+
+```bash
+$ make test
+```
+
+### Writing Tests
+
+For most contributions it is strongly recommended to add additional tests which
+exercise your changes.
+
+This helps us efficiently incorporate your changes into our mainline codebase
+and provides a safeguard that your change won't be broken by future development.
+
+There are some rare cases where code changes do not result in changed
+functionality (e.g. a performance optimization) and new tests are not required.
+In general, including tests with your pull request dramatically increases the
+chances it will be accepted.
+
+### And Finally...
+
+You are welcome to send pull requests to us - however, by doing so you agree
+that you are granting New Relic a non-exclusive, non-revokable, no-cost license
+to use the code, algorithms, patents, and ideas in that code in our products if
+we so choose. Fortunately, you also agree the code is provided as-is and you provide no
+warranties as to its fitness or correctness for any purpose.
+
+If you have any feedback on how we can make contributing easier, please get in
+touch at [support.newrelic.com](http://support.newrelic.com) and let us know!

README.md

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 ## Installation
 * download an archive file for the MySQL Integration
 * extract `mysql-definition.yml` and `/bin` directory into `/var/db/newrelic-infra/newrelic-integrations`
-* add execute permissions for the binary file `nr-mysql` (if required) 
+* add execute permissions for the binary file `nr-mysql` (if required)
 * extract `mysql-config.yml.sample` into `/etc/newrelic-infra/integrations.d`
 
 ## Usage
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 ```
 
 For managing external dependencies [govendor tool](https://github.com/kardianos/govendor) is used. It is required to lock all external dependencies to specific version (if possible) into vendor directory.
+
+## Contributing Code
+
+We welcome code contributions (in the form of pull requests) from our user
+community. Before submitting a pull request please review [these guidelines](https://github.com/newrelic/nri-mysql/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).
+
+Following these helps us efficiently review and incorporate your contribution
+and avoid breaking your code with future changes to the agent.
+
+## Custom Integrations
+
+To extend your monitoring solution with custom metrics, we offer the Integrations
+Golang SDK which can be found on [github](https://github.com/newrelic/infra-integrations-sdk).
+
+Refer to [our docs site](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/integrations-sdk/get-started/intro-infrastructure-integrations-sdk)
+to get help on how to build your custom integrations.
+
+## Support
+
+You can find more detailed documentation [on our website](http://newrelic.com/docs),
+and specifically in the [Infrastructure category](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure).
+
+If you can't find what you're looking for there, reach out to us on our [support
+site](http://support.newrelic.com/) or our [community forum](http://forum.newrelic.com)
+and we'll be happy to help you.
+
+Find a bug? Contact us via [support.newrelic.com](http://support.newrelic.com/),
+or email support@newrelic.com.
+
+New Relic, Inc.