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@ -4,13 +4,18 @@ Contributor Guidelines
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## Advice for new contributors
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Start small. The PRs most likely to be merged are the ones that make small,
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easily reviewed changes with clear, and specific intentions. See below for more
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easily reviewed changes with clear and specific intentions. See below for more
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[guidelines on pull requests](#pull-requests).
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It's a good idea to gauge interest in your intended work by finding the current issue
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for it or creating a new one yourself. You can use also that issue as a place to signal
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your intentions and get feedback from the users most likely to appreciate your changes.
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You're most likely to have your pull request accepted easily if it addresses bugs already
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in the [Next Steps project](https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/projects/1),
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especially if they are near the top of the Backlog column. Those are what we'll be looking
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at next, so it would be a great help if you helped us out!
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Once you've spent a little bit of time planning your solution, it's a good idea to go
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back to the issue and talk about your approach. We'd be happy to provide feedback. [An
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ounce of prevention, as they say!](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/247269-an-ounce-of-prevention-is-worth-a-pound-of-cure)
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Scott Nonnenberg
7 years ago
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