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+How to contribute to gedit
+==========================
+
+gedit development relies on voluntary contributions and everyone is invited to
+help.
+
+If you are interested in helping us to improve gedit, please contact the
+developers on the gedit mailing list and offer your help. See the “Getting in
+Touch” section on the [gedit wiki page](https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit).
+
+Contributions other than software development
+---------------------------------------------
+
+See the [GNOME wiki](https://wiki.gnome.org/).
+
+Doing **bug triaging** on the bug tracker is a very useful task for gedit,
+because gedit is used by many people and there are therefore lots of bug reports
+or feature requests. The gedit developers often have difficulties to triage all
+the bugs and do first line support. Having a curated list of important bugs to
+fix would tremendously help the gedit developers.
+
+Software development
+--------------------
+
+To get started with gedit software development, see the file
+[docs/gedit-development-getting-started.md](docs/gedit-development-getting-started.md).
+
+gedit follows the same guidelines and code conventions as GtkSourceView. See
+the [GtkSourceView HACKING file](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtksourceview/blob/master/HACKING).
+
+The gedit and gedit-plugins Git repositories are hosted on the GNOME GitLab
+instance:
+- [gedit on GitLab](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gedit)
+- [gedit-plugins on GitLab](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gedit-plugins)