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+# Airship Contributing Guidelines
+
+All Airship projects follow the contributing guidelines and
+developement conventions described in the
+[Develop Airship](https://airship-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/develop/index.html)
+section of [Airship Docs](https://airship-docs.readthedocs.io/).
+
+The Airship 2.x components, primarily
+[airship/airshipctl](https://opendev.org/airship/airshipctl), have
+additional
+[Contributing Guidelines](https://opendev.org/airship/airshipctl/src/branch/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#user-content-contributing-guidelines)
+to follow.
+
+Please, refer to those documents if you are participating in community
+project development.
+
+Thank you.