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+# Contribution guidelines
+
+Please open contributions as either issue reports or pull requests. We will ask 
+that anything that requires testing outside our normally supported platforms be 
+marked as such.
+
+As ircd is such an ancient project with varying code styles, please try to 
+follow the current coding style of the file you are in. If all else fails, 
+please use the [Linux Kernel](https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle)
+coding style.
+