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Setting up your project for healthy contributions
Repository maintainers can set contributing guidelines to help collaborators make meaningful, useful contributions to a project.
- About community management and moderation
- About community profiles for public repositories
- Accessing a project's community profile
- Adding a code of conduct to your project
- Setting guidelines for repository contributors
- Adding a license to a repository
- Adding support resources to your project
- Creating a default community health file
- Encouraging helpful contributions to your project with labels
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