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CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Contributing
+
+Thank you for your interest in contributing to QCOR!
+
+There are many ways in which you can contribute to QCOR, whether by
+contributing a feature or by engaging in discussions; we value contributions in
+all shapes and sizes! The following sections may give some ideas for how you can
+get involved.
+
+## Asking and Answering Questions
+
+Have a question? This repository is a great place to ask questions 
+about the compilation of quantum programs to QIR and 
+the QIR runtime based on [XACC](https://github.com/eclipse/xacc). 
+Your question will serve as resource to others
+searching for help. Please file an issue to ask your question
+[here](https://github.com/qir-alliance/qcor/issues/new).
+
+Or maybe you have figured out how that hard-to-understand concept works? Share
+your knowledge! If you are interested in contributing to the documentation
+around QIR and its tools, please follow the standard development process on the
+respective repository to improve the materials.
+
+## Reporting and Commenting on Issues
+
+Have you identified an issue or modification that would benefit the community?
+We want to hear about it! If you have feedback about the content in this
+repository, please let us know by filing a [new
+issue](https://github.com/qir-alliance/qcor/issues/new)!
+
+As for any active effort, there are always many ways in which we hope to evolve
+and improve the specification and tools. We encourage you to look at the list of
+currently [open issues](https://github.com/qir-alliance/qcor/issues) to share
+your ideas and expertise.
+
+## Contributing Code
+
+If you are interested in helping fix issues you or someone else encountered,
+please make sure that the corresponding issue has been filed on the repository.
+Check that nobody is currently working on it and that it has indeed been marked
+as bug. If that's the case, indicate on the issue that you are working on it,
+and link to the corresponding GitHub page where the fix is being developed. If
+someone is already working on a fix, ask if you can help or see what other
+things can be done. If an issue is labeled as feature, please follow the
+guidelines related to contributing features. If an issue has not been labeled
+yet, please indicate that you would like to work on it and be patient - we are a
+small team and are doing our best to be quick with responding to your inquiry!
+
+If you are interested in contributing a new feature, please first check if a
+similar functionality has already been requested. If so, consider contributing
+to the discussion around it rather than filing a separate issue. If no open or
+closed issue with such a request already exists, please file one following the
+[feature request
+template](https://github.com/qir-alliance/qcor/issues/new?assignees=&labels=feature&template=feature_request.md&title=).
+We will respond to feature requests and follow up with a discussion around its
+feasibility, how one might go about implementing it, and whether that is
+something that makes sense to add. There are several reasons why we might not be
+able to eventually merge even a great feature for one reason or another. Perhaps
+most commonly, a contribution is a really good one, but this isn't the right
+place to develop it or we simply aren't ready to maintain and develop it
+further. It can be difficult to do everything, so we are careful to prioritize
+the quality and reliability across the code base over new features. In such
+cases, we strongly encourage you to pursue your passion project in your own
+fork, and welcome sharing and discussing your thoughts and progress on the
+corresponding issue regardless. We'll also ask for changes to a pull request if
+it requires more documentation or unit tests to better make use of it.
+
+If you are looking for a place to get started with contributing code, search for
+example for the
+[good-first-issue](https://github.com/qir-alliance/qcor/labels/good%20first%20issue)
+or [help-wanted](https://github.com/qir-alliance/qcor/labels/help%20wanted)
+labels. Also, look for issues that have already been discussed in more detail,
+and check if you can help someone who has already started working on it.
+
+And last but not least:
+
+## Thank You
+
+Your contributions to open source, large or small, make great projects like this
+possible. Thank you for taking the time to contribute.

README.md

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+
+## Feedback
+
+If you have feedback about the content in this repository, please let us know by
+filing a [new issue](https://github.com/qir-alliance/qcor/issues/new)!
+
+## Contributing
+
+There are many ways in which you can contribute to QCOR, whether by contributing
+a feature or by engaging in discussions; we value contributions in all shapes
+and sizes! We refer to [this document](CONTRIBUTING.md) for guidelines and ideas
+for how you can get involved.
+
+Contributing a pull request to this repo requires to agree to a
+[Contributor License Agreement (CLA)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributor_License_Agreement)
+declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to
+use your contribution. We are still working on setting up a suitable CLA-bot to
+automate this process. A CLA-bot will automatically determine whether you need
+to provide a CLA and decorate the PR appropriately. Once it is set up, simply
+follow the instructions provided by the bot. You will only need to do this once.
+
+## Code of Conduct
+
+This project has adopted the community covenant
+[Code of Conduct](https://github.com/qir-alliance/.github/blob/main/Code_of_Conduct.md#contributor-covenant-code-of-conduct).
+Please contact [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) for Code of
+Conduct issues or inquires.