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Add contributing guidelines

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start by reading the linked sygnal CONTRIBUTING.md and inspecting this repository's existing documentation structure. Create a comparable contributing guide for matrix-content-scanner-python, with the project's actual contribution steps, and consider the work done when the guide is present and usable by new contributors.

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Description

Add a contributing guidelines guide. It will probably end up fairly similar to https://github.com/matrix-org/sygnal/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

Dominant language
Python
Stars
25
Forks
16
Avg merge
1d 7h
Merged PRs (30d)
12

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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