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+# Contributing to Open Device Partnership
+
+The Open Device Partnership project welcomes your suggestions and contributions! Before opening your first issue or pull request, please review our
+[Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) to understand how our community interacts in an inclusive and respectful manner.
+
+## Contribution Licensing
+
+Most of our code is distributed under the terms of the [MIT license](LICENSE), and when you contribute code that you wrote to our repositories,
+you agree that you are contributing under those same terms. In addition, by submitting your contributions you are indicating that
+you have the right to submit those contributions under those terms.
+
+## Other Contribution Information
+
+If you wish to contribute code or documentation authored by others, or using the terms of any other license, please indicate that clearly in your
+pull request so that the project team can discuss the situation with you.
+
+## Commit Message
+
+* Use meaningful commit messages. See [this blogpost](http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html)
+
+## PR Etiquette
+
+* Create a draft PR first
+* Make sure that your branch has `.github` folder and all the code linting/sanity check workflows are passing in your draft PR before sending it out to code reviewers.
+
+## Clean Commit History
+
+We disabled squashing of commit and would like to maintain a clean commit history. So please reorganize your commits with the following items:
+
+* Each commit builds successfully without warning
+* Miscellaneous commits to fix typos + formatting are squashed
+
+## Regressions
+
+When reporting a regression, please ensure that you use `git bisect` to find the first offending commit, as that will help us finding the culprit a lot faster.