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Add CONTRIBUTING.md

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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
go
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start with the referenced pull request #129 and inspect the repository for the conventions and tribal knowledge it exposes. Add CONTRIBUTING.md documenting those project practices; the work is done when contributors have a written guide covering the relevant conventions.

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Description

re: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd-examples/pull/129

The codebase has some conventions/tribal knowledge that would be good to put into a written format.

Dominant language
Go
Stars
444
Forks
215
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Getting set up

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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