Some small pointers on library devleopment

Author: davclark

LIBRARY_DEVELOPMENT.rst

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+Developing Libraries in the Bundle
+==================================
+
+Adafruit CircuitPython libraries are generally installable on a CPython interpreter with `pip` (or other package
+managers). The "Blinka" libraries are compatibility layers to fill in missing pieces that are expected from
+CircuitPython. Unfortunately, some of these compatibility layers may not work in all environments.
+
+Unless you are working with all of the libaries at the same time, the easiest workflow for development is to fork an
+individual library and make your changes there before submitting a PR back to the adafruit repository. If, however, you
+want to programmatically modify all libraries in this bundle, it may be more efficient to do development within this
+repository.
+
+Code Hygiene
+------------
+
+Adafruit libraries are not currently fully typed. If you would like to improve the typing coverage, we suggest
+`installing mypy`_. You can then run mypy from the command line or from within your editor / IDE.
+
+.. _installing mypy: https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/getting_started.html#installing-and-running-mypy
+
+

README.rst

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 After you clone this repository you must run ``git submodule init``
 and then ``git submodule update``.
 
+For developing individual libraries, please see LIBRARY_DEVELOPMENT.rst.
+
 Updating libraries
 -------------------
 To update the libraries run ``update-submodules.sh``. The script will fetch the