Depends on the project (which those projects may/may not be doing it right).

Katello a README (https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/katello.git/tree/README.md).
FreeIPA and SSSD use a README (https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/tree/README) and BUILD.txt (https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/tree/BUILD.txt)

Either way README and BUILD or INSTALL need to be created and/or updated in our repo.

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> wrote:
On Thursday, September 11, 2014 10:57:09 AM Greg Elin wrote:
> Is the common file "INSTALL.txt" or "BUILD.txt"?

There is no '.txt'. There is a table on this page that states the files that
are normally present/expected in opensource software:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/README

So, the build instructions would normally go into INSTALL which is expected to
live in the top level directory.

-Steve


> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 06:51:35 AM Greg Elin wrote:
> > > It was a fair amount of web searching and a couple of hours of trying to
> > > work this out. It seemed a odd that the information was so scarce and
> > > I'd
> > > need install and enable EPEL and so much in order to make. I guess if
> >
> > this
> >
> > > is the case, I would have just expected more warning from SSG docs.
> >
> > Typically (or at least one following gnu standards) would have an INSTALL
> > file
> > that describes how to build from source.
> >
> > > So I want to make sure I am actually doing this right and have a little
> > > discussion before creating a pull request.
> >
> > Failing to find a INSTALL file, I'd just read the spec file. It clearly
> > spells
> > out the build requirements and build steps. Those should be documented
> > into an
> > INSTALL file.
> >
> > -Steve