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+# Contribution Guide
+Help is always welcome. If you want to contribute to hueplusplus, please read these guidelines
+
+## Request feature / Report bug
+To request a feature or report a bug, create an issue using the templates.
+
+## Making changes
+If you want to add a new feature or fix a bug, first check out the development branch.
+Maybe the feature already exists and you would just do duplicate work.
+
+Also use the development branch as the base for your feature branch, because all pull requests are first rebased into development.
+
+## Pull requests
+When creating a pull request, be sure to choose development as the target.
+You might need to rebase on development again and merge in new changes.
+
+## Code style
+The code is formatted using clang-format. If you do not want to use it yourself, try to keep your style consistent with the other code
+so not too many reformats are necessary.