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+# Contributing Guidelines
+
+You are very welcome to submit PullRequests and Issues. Please keep the PullRequests small if not otherwise possible. Contact me *before* you are creating a big PR to avoid unnecessary work and rebasing of big PRs.
+
+If you have a question please ask the [community](https://plus.google.com/communities/116353894782342292067).
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+# PullRequest
+
+Great that you are thinking about submitting a PullRequest. Please keep them small if not otherwise possible. Contact me *before* you are creating a big PR to avoid unnecessary work and rebasing of big PRs. Also try to add tests - I am not religious about that but prefer PRs backed by tests. This project has everything setup for Espresso UI and Unit-tests. Also the existing unit and UI-tests muss pass before submitting a PullRequest. Please base the PullRequests on dev.