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+# SONiC: Software for Open Networking in the Cloud
+
+## sonic-platform-common
+
+Collection of Python packages which provide a common interface to platform-specific hardware peripherals in SONiC
+
+# Contribution guide
+
+All contributors must sign a contribution license agreement (CLA) before contributions can be accepted. This process is now automated via a GitHub bot when submitting new pull request. If the contributor has not yet signed a CLA, the bot will create a comment on the pull request containing a link to electronically sign the CLA.
+
+### GitHub Workflow
+
+We're following basic GitHub Flow. If you have no idea what we're talking about, check out [GitHub's official guide](https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/). Note that merge is only performed by the repository maintainer.
+
+Guide for performing commits:
+
+* Isolate each commit to one component/bugfix/issue/feature
+* Use a standard commit message format:
+
+>     [component/folder touched]: Description intent of your changes
+> 
+>     [List of changes]
+>     
+> 	  Signed-off-by: Your Name your@email.com
+    
+For example:
+
+>     swss-common: Stabilize the ConsumerTable
+>     
+>     * Fixing autoreconf
+>     * Fixing unit-tests by adding checkers and initialize the DB before start
+>     * Adding the ability to select from multiple channels
+>     * Health-Monitor - The idea of the patch is that if something went wrong with the notification channel, 
+>       we will have the option to know about it (Query the LLEN table length).
+>       
+>       Signed-off-by: John Doe user@dev.null
+
+
+* Each developer should fork this repository and [add the team as a Contributor](https://help.github.com/articles/adding-collaborators-to-a-personal-repository)
+* Push your changes to your private fork and do "pull-request" to this repository
+* Use a pull request to do code review
+* Use issues to keep track of what is going on