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From: Blake Eggleston <bdeggleston@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 10:11:38 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] adding contributor guidelines

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+### Contributing code to cqlengine
+
+Before submitting a pull request, please make sure that it follows these guidelines:
+
+* Limit yourself to one feature or bug fix per pull request.
+* Include unittests that thoroughly test the feature/bug fix
+* Write clear, descriptive commit messages.
+* Many granular commits are preferred over large monolithic commits
+* If you're adding or modifying features, please update the documentation
+
+If you're working on a big ticket item, please check in on [cqlengine-users](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/cqlengine-users).
+We'd hate to have to steer you in a different direction after you've already put in a lot of hard work.