CONTRIBUTING.md is important because it provides an easy entry point for new developers. Out of COPYING, INSTALL, README, and TODO, where do you go to answer th

CONTRIBUTING.md is important because it provides an easy entry point for new developers. Out of COPYING, INSTALL, README, and TODO, where do you go to answer that question? Except for TODO, all those files are targeted at end users, not contributors. The choice of Markdown is of course entirely arbitrary. The up-for-grabs label goes in your bug tracker. Then anyone can see it by browsing open bugs. NPM is the package management tool used by Node, not a build tool. I think that Node having its own package manager is ridiculous, but since Node development already requires it, there's no reason for this project to not make full use of it. Outside of using NPM, I don't see anything web-specific, and outside of Githook I don't see anything git-specific. Even Sourceforge gives you a bug tracker!