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Setting up your project for healthy contributions

Repository maintainers can set contributing guidelines to help collaborators make meaningful, useful contributions to a project.

Setting guidelines for repository contributors

You can create guidelines to communicate how people should contribute to your project.

Adding support resources to your project

You can create a SUPPORT file to let people know about ways to get help with your project.

Adding a license to a repository

You can include an open source license in your repository to make it easier for other people to contribute.

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