Documentation Cleanup in /Doc

Added some help text, and bumped version numbers.

Added a Readable Index for /Contrib

Fixing /Contrib Index URLs

Revert Version Numbers.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0ac3222328..2534a62b08 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ the Bitcoin client software, see http://www.bitcoin.org.
 License
 -------
 
-Bitcoin is released under the terms of the MIT license. See `COPYING` for more
+Bitcoin is released under the terms of the MIT license. See [COPYING](COPYING) for more
 information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
 
 Development process
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ submitter will be asked to start a discussion (if they haven't already) on the
 
 The patch will be accepted if there is broad consensus that it is a good thing.
 Developers should expect to rework and resubmit patches if the code doesn't
-match the project's coding conventions (see `doc/coding.md`) or are
+match the project's coding conventions (see [doc/coding.md](doc/coding.md)) or are
 controversial.
 
 The `master` branch is regularly built and tested, but is not guaranteed to be
@@ -56,10 +56,7 @@ lots of money.
 ### Automated Testing
 
 Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to
-submit new unit tests for old code.
-
-Unit tests can be compiled and run (assuming they weren't disabled in configure) with:
-  make check
+submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run (assuming they weren't disabled in configure) with: `make check`
 
 Every pull request is built for both Windows and Linux on a dedicated server,
 and unit and sanity tests are automatically run. The binaries produced may be
@@ -71,5 +68,4 @@ for the build/test scripts.
 
 Large changes should have a test plan, and should be tested by somebody other
 than the developer who wrote the code.
-
 See https://github.com/bitcoin/QA/ for how to create a test plan.