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+# Contributing
+
+We'd love for you to contribute to gitlint. Thanks for your interest!
+The [source-code and issue tracker](https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint) are hosted on Github.
+
+!!! note
+ Often it takes a while for us (well, actually just [me](https://github.com/jorisroovers)) to get back to you
+ (sometimes up to a few months, this is a hobby project), but rest assured that we read your message and appreciate
+ your interest!
+ We maintain a [loose project plan on github projects](https://github.com/users/jorisroovers/projects/1/), but
+ that's open to a lot of change and input.
+
+## Overall Guidelines
+
+When contributing code, please consider all the parts that are typically required:
+
+- [Unit tests](https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/tree/main/gitlint-core/gitlint/tests) (automatically
+ [enforced by CI](https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/actions)). Please consider writing
+ new ones for your functionality, not only updating existing ones to make the build pass.
+- [Integration tests](https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/tree/main/qa) (also automatically
+ [enforced by CI](https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/actions)). Again, please consider writing new ones
+ for your functionality, not only updating existing ones to make the build pass.
+- [Documentation](https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/tree/main/docs).
+
+Since we want to maintain a high standard of quality, all of these things will have to be done regardless before code
+can make it as part of a release. **Gitlint commits and pull requests are gated on all of our tests and checks as well as
+code-review**. If you can already include them as part of your PR, it's a huge timesaver for us
+and it's likely that your PR will be merged and released a lot sooner.
+
+!!! important
+ It's a good idea to open an issue before submitting a PR for non-trivial changes, so we can discuss what you have
+ in mind before you spend the effort. Thanks!
+
+## Releases
+Gitlint releases typically go out when there's either enough new features and fixes
+to make it worthwhile or when there's a critical fix for a bug that fundamentally breaks gitlint.
+
+While the amount of overhead of doing a release isn't huge, it's also not zero. In practice this means that it might
+take weeks or months before merged code actually gets released - we know that can be frustrating but please
+understand it's a well-considered trade-off based on available time.
+
+### Dev Builds
+While final releases are usually months apart, we do dev builds on every commit to `main`:
+
+- **gitlint**: [https://pypi.org/project/gitlint/#history](https://pypi.org/project/gitlint/#history)
+- **gitlint-core**: [https://pypi.org/project/gitlint-core/#history](https://pypi.org/project/gitlint-core/#history)
+
+It usually takes about 5 min after merging a PR to `main` for new dev builds to show up. Note that the installation
+of a recently published version can still fail for a few minutes after a new version shows up on PyPI while the package
+is replicated to all download mirrors.
+
+To install a dev build of gitlint:
+```sh
+# Find latest dev build on https://pypi.org/project/gitlint/#history
+pip install gitlint=="0.19.0.dev68"
+```
+
+
+## Environment setup
+### Local setup
+
+Gitlint uses [hatch](https://hatch.pypa.io/latest/) for project management.
+You do not need to setup a `virtualenv`, hatch will take care of that for you.
+
+```sh
+pip install hatch
+```
+
+### Github Devcontainer
+
+We provide a devcontainer on github to make it easier to get started with gitlint development using VSCode.
+
+To start one, click the plus button under the *Code* dropdown on
+[the gitlint repo on github](https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint).
+
+**It can take ~15min for all post installation steps to finish.**
+
+![Gitlint Dev Container Instructions](images/dev-container.png)
+
+
+By default we have python 3.11 installed in the dev container, but you can also use [asdf](https://asdf-vm.com/)
+(preinstalled) to install additional python versions:
+
+```sh
+# Ensure ASDF overrides system python in PATH
+# You can also append this line to your ~/.bash_profile in the devcontainer to have this happen automatically on login
+source "$(brew --prefix asdf)/libexec/asdf.sh"
+
+# Install python 3.9.15
+asdf install python 3.9.15
+# List all available python versions
+asdf list all python
+# List installed python versions
+asdf list python
+```
+
+## Running tests
+```sh
+# Gitlint
+hatch run dev:gitlint # run the local source copy of gitlint
+hatch run dev:gitlint --version # This is just the gitlint binary, any flag will work
+hatch run dev:gitlint --debug
+
+# Unit tests
+hatch run test:unit-tests # run unit tests
+hatch run test:unit-tests gitlint-core/gitlint/tests/rules/test_body_rules.py::BodyRuleTests::test_body_missing # run a single test
+hatch run test:unit-tests -k test_body_missing_merge_commit # Run a specific tests using a pytest keyword expression
+hatch run test:unit-tests-no-cov # run unit tests without test coverage
+
+# Integration tests
+hatch run qa:install-local # One-time install: install the local gitlint source copy for integration testing
+hatch run qa:integration-tests # Run integration tests
+
+# Formatting check (black)
+hatch run test:format # Run formatting checks
+
+# Linting (ruff)
+hatch run test:lint # Run Ruff
+
+# Project stats
+hatch run test:stats
+```
+## Autoformatting and autofixing
+
+We use [black](https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) for code formatting.
+
+```sh
+hatch run test:autoformat # format all python code
+hatch run test:autoformat gitlint-core/gitlint/lint.py # format a specific file
+```
+
+We use [ruff](https://github.com/charliermarsh/ruff) for linting, it can autofix many of the issue it finds
+(although not always perfect).
+```sh
+hatch run test:autofix # Attempt to fix linting issues
+```
+
+## Documentation
+We use [mkdocs](https://www.mkdocs.org/) for generating our documentation from markdown.
+
+To use it:
+```sh
+hatch run docs:serve
+```
+
+Then access the documentation website on [http://localhost:8000]().
+
+## Packaging
+
+Gitlint consists of 2 python packages: [gitlint](https://pypi.org/project/gitlint/)
+and [gitlint-core](https://pypi.org/project/gitlint-core/).
+
+The `gitlint` package is just a wrapper package around `gitlint-core[trusted-deps]` which strictly pins gitlint
+dependencies to known working versions.
+
+There are scenarios where users (or OS package managers) may want looser dependency requirements.
+In these cases, users can just install `gitlint-core` directly (`pip install gitlint-core`).
+
+[Issue 162](https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/issues/162) has all the background of how we got to the decision
+to split gitlint in 2 packages.
+
+![Gitlint package structure](images/gitlint-packages.png)
+
+To build the packages locally:
+```sh
+# gitlint
+hatch build
+hatch clean # cleanup
+
+# gitlint-core
+cd gitlint-core
+hatch build
+hatch clean # cleanup
+```
+
+## Tools
+We keep a small set of scripts in the `tools/` directory:
+
+```sh
+tools/create-test-repo.sh # Create a test git repo in your /tmp directory
+tools/windows/create-test-repo.bat # Windows: create git test repo
+tools/windows/run_tests.bat # Windows run unit tests
+```
+
+## Contrib rules
+Since gitlint 0.12.0, we support [Contrib rules](contrib_rules.md): community contributed rules that are part of gitlint
+itself. Thanks for considering to add a new one to gitlint!
+
+Before starting, please read all the other documentation on this page about contributing first.
+Then, we suggest taking the following approach to add a Contrib rule:
+
+1. **Write your rule as a [user-defined rule](user_defined_rules.md)**. In terms of code, Contrib rules are identical to
+ user-defined rules, they just happen to have their code sit within the gitlint codebase itself.
+2. **Add your user-defined rule to gitlint**. You should put your file(s) in the [gitlint/contrib/rules](https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/tree/main/gitlint-core/gitlint/contrib/rules) directory.
+3. **Write unit tests**. The gitlint codebase contains [Contrib rule test files you can copy and modify](https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/tree/main/gitlint-core/gitlint/tests/contrib/rules).
+4. **Write documentation**. In particular, you should update the [gitlint/docs/contrib_rules.md](https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/blob/main/docs/contrib_rules.md) file with details on your Contrib rule.
+5. **Create a Pull Request**: code review typically requires a bit of back and forth. Thanks for your contribution!
+
+
+### Contrib rule requirements
+If you follow the steps above and follow the existing gitlint conventions wrt naming things, you should already be fairly close to done.
+
+In case you're looking for a slightly more formal spec, here's what gitlint requires of Contrib rules.
+
+- Since Contrib rules are really just user-defined rules that live within the gitlint code-base, all the [user-rule requirements](user_defined_rules.md#rule-requirements) also apply to Contrib rules.
+- All contrib rules **must** have associated unit tests. We *sort of* enforce this by a unit test that verifies that there's a
+ test file for each contrib file.
+- All contrib rules **must** have names that start with `contrib-`. This is to easily distinguish them from default gitlint rules.
+- All contrib rule ids **must** start with `CT` (for LineRules targeting the title), `CB` (for LineRules targeting the body) or `CC` (for CommitRules). Again, this is to easily distinguish them from default gitlint rules.
+- All contrib rules **must** have unique names and ids.
+- You **can** add multiple rule classes to the same file, but classes **should** be logically grouped together in a single file that implements related rules.
+- Contrib rules **should** be meaningfully different from one another. If a behavior change or tweak can be added to an existing rule by adding options, that should be considered first. However, large [god classes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_object) that implement multiple rules in a single class should obviously also be avoided.
+- Contrib rules **should** use [options](user_defined_rules.md#options) to make rules configurable.