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+# Contributing to revive
+
+Please contribute to this repository if any of the following is true:
+
+* You are interested in improving the revive source or docs.
+* You have expertise in community development, communication, or education.
+* You want open source communities to be more collaborative and inclusive.
+* You want to help lower the burden to first time contributors.
+
+## How to contribute
+
+Prerequisites:
+
+* Familiarity with [GitHub PRs](https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests) (pull requests) and issues.
+* Knowledge of Go and familarity with static code analysis, or tech writing.
+
+## Submitting a Pull Request
+
+All submissions, including submissions by project members, require review. We use GitHub pull requests for this purpose. See our [developer guide](DEVELOPING.md) for instructions on building the project.
+
+Pull requests (fixes, new features, tests) are a great way to contribute to the project and help us make it better. Ideally, try to keep your PRs as focused as possible and keep your commits atomic and readable.
+
+To avoid disappointment when working on a PR, please ask us first in case someone else is already working on a PR for a change you wished to make. It's always a good idea to file an issue before starting work on a PR unless it's for something minor (such as a typo fix).
+
+We greatly appreciate any attention to tests. These help us validate that new work continues to function as expected over time.
+
+In particular, this community seeks the following types of contributions:
+
+* Improvement of the documentation. For example, tutorial on development of a custom rule, or a formatter.
+* Development of new rules for providing an even stricter preset of validations.
+* Development of new formatters for more readable output of the linting process.
+
+This contribution guide was inspired by others including contributing to
+Google open-source, React, Gulp, Babel, Guess.js.
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+# Developer's Guide
+
+This document explains how to build, test, and develop features for revive.
+
+## Installation
+
+In order to install all the dependencies run:
+
+```bash
+go get -u github.com/mgechev/revive
+cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/mgechev/revive
+```
+
+After that install the dependencies using dep:
+
+```bash
+make install
+```
+
+## Build
+
+In order to build the project run:
+
+```bash
+make build
+```
+
+The command will produce the `revive` binary in the root of the project.
+
+## Development of rules
+
+If you want to develop a new rule, follow as an example the already existing rules in the [rule package](https://github.com/mgechev/revive/tree/master/rule).
+
+All rules should implement the following interface:
+
+```go
+type Rule interface {
+	Name() string
+	Apply(*File, Arguments) []Failure
+}
+```
+
+## Development of formatters
+
+If you want to develop a new formatter, follow as an example the already existing formatters in the [formatter package](https://github.com/mgechev/revive/tree/master/formatter).
+
+All formatters should implement the following interface:
+
+```go
+type Formatter interface {
+	Format(<-chan Failure, RulesConfig) (string, error)
+	Name() string
+}
+```