Add a link to a StackOverflow answer showing how to configure IDEA to
automatically check and enforce the format of the commit message.
More specifically, the 50-character limit for the commit title and
72-character limit for the commit body.
Explicitly state that Pull Requests with changes should ask for a re-review when those changes have been made. This will help the review workflow since they only need to keep track of PRs in the "review required " state.
The CONTRIBUTING.md file must be located in the root directory of a
project (or within a .github directory) in order to be recognized by
GitHub and presented to users during the process of filing an issue
or pull request. It doesn't do any good within the docs/ directory.
