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+# Contributing to xmonad and xmonad-contrib
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+Please refer to XMonad's [CONTRIBUTING][gh:xmonad:contributing].
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+[gh:xmonad:contributing]: https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md