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+Contributing to SecureAccessTokenAuthorizer
+===========================================
+
+Contributions are accepted in many forms.
+
+Examples of contributions include:
+
+* Bug reports and patch reviews
+* Documentation improvements
+* Code patches
+
+File a ticket at:
+
+https://github.com/PrivateStorageio/SecureAccessTokenAuthorizer/issues/new
+
+SecureAccessTokenAuthorizer uses GitHub keep track of bugs, feature requests, and associated patches.
+
+Contributions are managed using GitHub's Pull Requests.
+For a PR to be accepted it needs to have:
+
+* an associated issue
+* all CI tests passing
+* patch coverage of 100% as reported by codecov.io