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+Contributing
+============
+If you want to contribute to Segmentator and make it better, your help is very welcome.
+
+## Opening an issue
+
+- Please post your quesions, bug reports and feature requests [here](https://github.com/ofgulban/segmentator/issues).
+- When reporting a bug, please specify your system and a complete copy of the error message that you are getting.
+
+## Making a pull request
+
+- Create a personal fork of the project on Github.
+- Clone the fork on your local machine.
+- Create a new branch to work on. Branch from `devel`.
+- Implement/fix your feature, comment your code.
+- Follow the code style of the project.
+- Add or change the documentation as needed.
+- Push your branch to your fork on Github.
+- From your fork open a pull request in the correct branch. Target `devel` branch of the original Segmentator repository.
+
+__Note:__ Please write your commit messages in the present tense. Your commit message should describe what the commit, when applied, does to the code – not what you did to the code.
+
+___
+This guideline is adapted from [link](https://github.com/MarcDiethelm/contributing/blob/master/README.md)