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+Contributing to MindPoint Group Projects
+========================================
+
+Rules
+-----
+1) All commits must be GPG signed (details in Signing section)
+2) All commits must have Signed-off-by (Signed-off-by: Joan Doe <joan.doe@email.com>) in the commit message (details in Signing section)
+3) All work is done in your own branch
+4) All pull requests go into the devel branch. There are automated checks for signed commits, signoff in commit message, and functional testing)
+5) Be open and nice to eachother
+
+Workflow
+--------
+- Your work is done in your own individual branch. Make sure to to Signed-off and GPG sign all commits you intend to merge
+- All community Pull Requests are into the devel branch. There are automated checks for GPG signed, Signed-off in commits, and functional tests before being approved. If your pull request comes in from outside of our repo, the pull request will go into a staging branch. There is info needed from our repo for our CI/CD testing.
+- Once your changes are merged and a more detailed review is complete, an authorized member will merge your changes into the main branch for a new release
+
+Signing your contribution
+-------------------------
+
+We've chosen to use the Developer's Certificate of Origin (DCO) method
+that is employed by the Linux Kernel Project, which provides a simple
+way to contribute to MindPoint Group projects.
+
+The process is to certify the below DCO 1.1 text
+::
+
+    Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
+
+    By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
+
+    (a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
+        have the right to submit it under the open source license
+        indicated in the file; or
+
+    (b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
+        of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
+        license and I have the right under that license to submit that
+        work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
+        by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
+        permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
+        in the file; or
+
+    (c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
+        person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
+        it.
+
+    (d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
+        are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
+        personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
+        maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
+        this project or the open source license(s) involved.
+::
+
+Then, when it comes time to submit a contribution, include the
+following text in your contribution commit message:
+
+::
+
+   Signed-off-by: Joan Doe <joan.doe@email.com>
+
+::
+
+
+This message can be entered manually, or if you have configured git
+with the correct `user.name` and `user.email`, you can use the `-s`
+option to `git commit` to automatically include the signoff message.