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+# Contributing to Testify
+
+So you'd like to contribute to Testify? First of all, thank you! Testify is widely used, so each
+contribution has a significant impact within the Golang community! Below you'll find everything you
+need to know to get up to speed on the project.
+
+## Philosophy
+
+The Testify maintainers generally attempt to follow widely accepted practices within the Golang
+community. That being said, the first priority is always to make sure that the package is useful to
+the community. A few general guidelines are listed here:
+
+*Keep it simple (whenever practical)* - Try not to expand the API unless the new surface area
+provides meaningful benefits. For example, don't add functions because they might be useful to
+someone, someday. Add what is useful to specific users, today.
+
+*Ease of use is paramount* - This means good documentation and package organization. It also means
+that we should try hard to use meaningful, descriptive function names, avoid breaking the API
+unnecessarily, and try not to surprise the user.
+
+*Quality isn't an afterthought* - Testify is a testing library, so it seems reasonable that we
+should have a decent test suite. This is doubly important because a bug in Testify doesn't just mean
+a bug in our users' code, it means a bug in our users' tests, which means a potentially unnoticed
+and hard-to-find bug in our users' code.
+
+## Pull Requests
+
+We welcome pull requests! Please include the following in the description:
+
+  * Motivation, why your change is important or helpful
+  * Example usage (if applicable)
+  * Whether you intend to add / change behavior or fix a bug
+
+Please be aware that the maintainers may ask for changes. This isn't a commentary on the quality of
+your idea or your code. Testify is the result of many contributions from many individuals, so we
+need to enforce certain practices and patterns to keep the package easy for others to understand.
+Essentially, we recognize that there are often many good ways to do a given thing, but we have to
+pick one and stick with it.
+
+See `MAINTAINERS.md` for a list of users who can approve / merge your changes.
+
+## Issues
+
+If you find a bug or think of a useful feature you'd like to see added to Testify, the best thing
+you can do is make the necessary changes and open a pull requests (see above). If that isn't an
+option, or if you'd like to discuss your change before you write the code, open an issue!
+
+Please provide enough context in the issue description that other members of the community can
+easily understand what it is that you'd like to see.
+
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+# Testify Maintainers
+
+The individuals listed below are active in the project and have the ability to approve and merge
+pull requests.
+
+  * @glesica
+  * @boyan-soubachov
+