Added contributing.md

Contributing.md

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+# Contributing Guidelines
+
+## Introduction
+
+Contributions are always welcomed. You can help `node-mysql2` community in various ways. Here are our major priorities, listed in order of importance.
+
+  - `node-mysql` API incompatibility fixes
+  - Documentation
+  - Adding tests or improving existing ones
+  - Improving benchmarks
+  - Bug Fixes
+  - TODO from source
+  - Performance improvements
+  - Add Features
+
+## Security Issues
+
+Please contact project maintainers privately before opening a security issue on Github. It will allow us to fix the issue before attackers know about it.
+
+**Contact**
+
+- Andrey Sidorov, [email protected]
+
+## New Features
+
+Its better to discuss an API before actaully start implementing it. You can open an issue on Github. We can discuss design of API and implementation ideas.
+
+## Development
+
+We assume you already have these tools installed on your system
+ - MySQL Server
+ - Node.JS
+
+As `node-mysql2` is purely JS based you can develop it on Linux, Mac or Windows. Please follow these steps
+
+```bash
+# clone node-mysql2
+git clone https://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2.git
+
+cd /path/to/node-mysql2
+
+# install node modules
+npm install
+```
+
+### Running Tests
+
+Running tests requires MySQL server and an empty database. You can run `bash` command given below to create `test` database
+
+```bash
+# assuming MySQL have a user root with no password
+echo "CREATE DATABASE test;" | mysql -uroot
+```
+
+```sh
+# Run once to setup the local environment variables.
+export CI=1;
+export MYSQL_HOST='127.0.0.1';
+export MYSQL_USER='root';
+export MYSQL_PASSWORD='root';
+export MYSQL_DATABASE='test';
+
+# If test user has no password, unset the `CI` variable.
+
+# Run the test suite
+npm run test
+```
+
+Use `FILTER` environment variable to run a subset of tests with matching names, e.g.
+
+```sh
+FILTER='test-timestamp' npm run test
+```

License

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-Copyright (c) 2013 Andrey Sidorov ([email protected]) and contributors
+Copyright (c) 2016 Andrey Sidorov ([email protected]) and contributors
 
  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal

README.md

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 [![Linux Build][travis-image]][travis-url]
 [![Windows Build][appveyor-image]][appveyor-url]
 
-Mysql client for node.js. Written in native JavaScript and aims to be mostly api compatible with [node-mysql](https://github.com/felixge/node-mysql)
+MySql client for node.js. Written in native JavaScript and aims to be mostly api compatible with [node-mysql](https://github.com/felixge/node-mysql)
 
 [![NPM](https://nodei.co/npm/mysql2.png?downloads=true&stars=true)](https://nodei.co/npm/mysql2/)
 [![NPM](https://nodei.co/npm-dl/mysql2.png?months=6)](https://nodei.co/npm/mysql2/)
@@ -15,11 +15,11 @@ Mysql client for node.js. Written in native JavaScript and aims to be mostly api
 
  In addition to client-side query/escape and connection pooling
 
-  - [fast](https://gist.github.com/sidorares/ffe9ee9c423f763e3b6b)
+  - [Fast](https://gist.github.com/sidorares/ffe9ee9c423f763e3b6b)
   - MySQL server API for proxies and mocks
   - SSL and compression
-  - prepared statements
-  - binlog protocol client
+  - Prepared statements
+  - Binary log protocol client
 
 ## Documentation
 
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   *  **field_list**(table: string, fields: string) - Default: return ER_WARN_DEPRECATED_SYNTAX
   *  **ping**() - Default: return OK
 
-## Running Tests
-
-Running the tests requires MySQL server and an empty database.
-
-```sh
-# Run once to setup the local environment variables.
-export CI=1;
-export MYSQL_HOST='127.0.0.1';
-export MYSQL_USER='root';
-export MYSQL_PASSWORD='root';
-export MYSQL_DATABASE='test';
-
-# If test user has no password, unset the `CI` variable.
-
-# Run the test suite
-npm run test
-```
-
-Use `FILTER` environment variable to run a subset of tests with matching names, e.g.
-
-```sh
-FILTER='test-timestamp' npm run test
-```
-
 ## License
 
  MIT
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 ## Contributing
 
-Feel free to create pull requests.
-TODO in order of importance:
-
-  - node-mysql api incompatibility fixes
-  - documentation
-  - tests
-  - benchmarks
-  - bug fixes
-  - TODOs in source code
-  - performance improvements
-  - features
+Want to improve something in `node-mysql2`. Please check [Contributing.md](https://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2/blob/master/Changelog.md) for detailed instruction on how to get started.
+
 
 [npm-image]: https://img.shields.io/npm/v/mysql2.svg
 [npm-url]: https://npmjs.org/package/mysql2