documentation fixes in README and added contributing.md

Author: ayansen

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Contributing
+
+Code contributions are always welcome! 
+
+* Open an issue in the repo with defect/enhancements
+* We can also be reached @ https://gitter.im/expedia-haystack/Lobby
+* Fork, make the changes, build and test it locally
+* Issue a PR - watch the PR build in [travis-ci](https://travis-ci.org/ExpediaDotCom/haystack-client-java)
+* Once merged to master, travis-ci will build and release the artifact with the current snapshot version
+
+
+## Building the code
+
+### Prerequisites
+
+* Make sure you have Java 1.8
+
+### Building
+
+For a full build, including unit tests you can run the following
+
+```
+./mvnw clean package
+```
+
+## Releasing the current changes
+
+Latest releases of this library are available in [Maven central](https://mvnrepository.com/search?q=Haystack&d=com.expedia)
+
+1. Get All your changes reviewed and merged into master
+2. Test the latest snapshot build in [SonaType Snapshots Repository](https://oss.sonatype.org/#nexus-search;quick~haystack-client-java) to ensure the artifact contains all your changes and they work as expected
+3. Once merged to master, one can use github https://github.com/ExpediaDotCom/haystack-client-java/releases or manual tagging to the next semantic version
+4. This will cause the build to run for the new tagged version. This will cause the jar files to be released to the 
+[SonaType Release Repository](https://oss.sonatype.org/#nexus-search;quick~haystack-client-java).
+5. Now, update the POM version to next snapshot version for development
+6. Create another pull request with the change from step 5 and get it merged.
+
+

README.md

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 [![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/ExpediaDotCom/haystack-client-java/branch/master/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/ExpediaDotCom/haystack-client-java)
 [![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache%20License%202.0-blue.svg)](https://github.com/ExpediaDotCom/haystack/blob/master/LICENSE)
 
-# haystack-client-java
+# Haystack Client Java 
+
+Haystack client java is an [OpenTracing](https://github.com/opentracing/opentracing-java) compatible library which is used to capture information about distributed operations and report them to [haystack](https://expediadotcom.github.io/haystack)
 
-Haystack bindings for the OpenTracing API. Clients use this library to send trace data to a Haystack server.
 
 Opentracing API usage has been documented at [https://github.com/opentracing/opentracing-java](https://github.com/opentracing/opentracing-java). 
 
-`haystack-client-core` library provides an implementation of `io.opentracing.Tracer` that sends spans to `Haystack` server. 
 
-Integrations for common frameworks are available @ 
+You can look at our sample projects for how to trace a simple web application
+
+* [SpringBoot Example](https://github.com/ExpediaDotCom/opentracing-spring-haystack-example)
+* [Dropwizard Example](https://github.com/ExpediaDotCom/haystack-dropwizard-example) 
+
+## Contributing and Developing
+Please see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md)
+
+
+## Core Modules
+
+[haystack-client-core](./core) -  library provides an implementation of `io.opentracing.Tracer` that sends spans to `Haystack` server. 
+
+## Addon Modules
+
+[haystack-client-metrics-micrometer](./metrics/micrometer): metrics provider backed by [micrometer](https://micrometer.io/), to report internal Haystack Client metrics to third-party backends, such as Prometheus
+
+[haystack-client-metrics-dropwizard](./metrics/dropwizard-metrics): metrics provider backed by [dropwizard-metrics](https://metrics.dropwizard.io/4.0.0/), to report internal Haystack Client metrics to third-party backends, such as Graphite
+
+[haystack-client-metrics-api](./metrics/api): metrics api consumed by haystack-client-core to report internal Haystack Client metrics. By default its bundled with a NoOp metrics dispatcher, add any of the obove dependencies to push the client metrics.
 
-* [Dropwizard](integrations/dropwizard/README.md)
-* [Spring Boot and Web](integrations/opentracing-spring-haystack-web-starter/README.md)
-* [Opencencus](integrations/opencensus/README.md)
 
+## Importing Dependencies
 
-## How to build the code
+All artifacts are published to Maven Central. Snapshot artifacts are also published to [Sonatype][sonatype].
+Follow these [instructions][sonatype-snapshot-instructions] to add the snapshot repository to your build system.
 
-### Prerequisites
+**Please use the latest version:** [![Released Version][maven-img]][maven]
 
-* Make sure you have Java 1.8
+In the usual case, you just need to include the following dependency to your project:
+```xml
+<dependency>
+  <groupId>com.expedia.www</groupId>
+  <artifactId>haystack-client-java-core</artifactId>
+  <version>$latestClientVersion</version>
+  <type>pom</type>
+</dependency>
+``` 
 
-### Building
+## Integrations 
 
-For a full build, including unit tests you can run the following
+In case your apps are already wired in with some kind of instrumentation library other than OpenTracing you could refer to the below links based on your usecase
 
-```
-./mvnw clean package
-```
+* [Opencencus](https://github.com/ExpediaDotCom/haystack-opencensus-exporter-java)
+* [Brave-Zipkin](https://github.com/HotelsDotCom/pitchfork)
 
-### Releases
 
-Latest releases of this library are available in [Maven central](https://mvnrepository.com/search?q=Haystack&d=com.expedia)
+## License
+This project is licensed under the Apache License v2.0 - see the LICENSE.txt file for details.
 
-1. Create a pull request with your changes.
-2. Ask for a review of the pull request; when it is approved, the Travis CI build will upload the resulting SNAPSHOT jar file
-to the [SonaType Staging Repository](https://oss.sonatype.org/#stagingRepositories)
-3. Once merged to master, one can use github https://github.com/ExpediaDotCom/haystack-client-java/releases or manual tagging to the next semantic version
-4. This will cause the build to run for the new tagged version. This will cause the jar files to be released to the 
-[SonaType Release Repository](https://oss.sonatype.org/#nexus-search;quick~haystack-client-java).
-5. Now, update the POM version to next snapshot version for development
-6. Create another pull request with the change from step 5 and get it merged.

metrics/dropwizard-metrics/pom.xml

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         <version>0.2.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
     </parent>
 
-    <artifactId>haystack-client-dropwizard-metrics</artifactId>
+    <artifactId>haystack-client-metrics-dropwizard</artifactId>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
-    <name>haystack-client-dropwizard-metrics</name>
+    <name>haystack-client-metrics-dropwizard</name>
     <description>Dropwizard metrics for the haystack library</description>
 
     <properties>