Fix #266 Points newcomers to easy bugs in the documentation

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 2fa0a658441c22db404a913c9a377c7a3024017e..dfad49f600571f393467bcbe2b4528e77a7dd22d 100644 (file)
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ For a PR to be merged, the following statements must hold true:
   not the author of the PR. Commits shall comply to the "Good Commits" standards
   outlined below.
 
+To begin contributing have a look at the open [easy issues](https://github.com/python-babel/babel/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Adifficulty%2Flow) 
+which could be fixed.
+
 ## Correcting PRs
 
 Rebasing PRs is preferred over merging master into the source branches again

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4fa81e6099fa27cae4648de125017c309d07743b..98ea0146749138c975f5c2edd316c972392f7065 100644 (file)
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Contributing to Babel
 =====================
 
 If you want to contribute code to Babel, please take a look at our
-CONTRIBUTING.md.
+[CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/python-babel/babel/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).
 
 If you know your way around Babels codebase a bit and like to help further, we
 would appreciate any help in reviewing pull requests. Please contact us at