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* Basic information in CONTRIBUTING.md

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CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Contributing
+
+We highly value and encourage contributions from the community!
+
+Reignite is [Apache 2.0 licensed](LICENSE) and accepts contributions via GitHub
+Pull Requests.This document outlines some of the conventions on development
+workflow, commit message formatting, contact points and other resources to make
+it easier to get your contribution accepted.
+
+We gratefully welcome improvements to documentation as well as to code.
+
+## Guidelines
+
+If you have a feature suggestion or found a bug, head over to
+[GitHub issues][issues] and see if there's an open issue matching your
+description. If not feel free to open a new issue and add short description:
+ - In case of a bug, be sure to include the steps you performed and what
+ - Reignite responded so it's easy for others to reproduce If you have a
+ - feature suggestion, describe it in moderate detail and include some
+ - potential uses you see for the feature.
+   We prioritize the features to be implemented based on their
+   usefulness/popularity. Of course if you want to start contributing yourself,
+   go ahead! We'll be more than happy to review your pull requests.
+
+The maintainers will add the correct labels/milestones to the issue for you.
+
+[issues]: https://github.com/weaveworks/reignite/issues
+
+### Contributing your code
+
+

README.md

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-# reignite - the spawn of ignite
-(Re)Ignite a MicroVM
+# (Re)Ignite a MicroVM
+
+## What is (Re)Ignite?
+
+## Use-cases
+
+## Documentation
+
+* [Getting started with reignite][quickstart]
+
+## Contributing
+
+Please see [CONTRIBUTING.md][contrib] and our [Code Of Conduct][coc].
+
+Please see CONTRIBUTING.md and our Code Of Conduct.
+
+Other interesting resources include:
+
+* [The issue tracker][issues]
+* [The list of milestones][milestones]
+* [Architectural Decision Records (ADR)][adr]
+* [Getting started with reignite][quickstart]
+
+## Getting Help
+
+If you have any questions about, feedback for or problems with ignite:
+
+* [File an issue][issues].
+
+Your feedback is always welcome!
+
+## License
+
+[License 2.0][license]
+
+
+[quickstart]: https://github.com/weaveworks/reignite/blob/main/docs/quick-start.md
+[contrib]: https://github.com/weaveworks/reignite/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
+[coc]: https://github.com/weaveworks/reignite/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
+[issues]: https://github.com/weaveworks/reignite/issues
+[milestones]: https://github.com/weaveworks/reignite/milestones
+[adr]: https://github.com/weaveworks/reignite/tree/main/docs/adr
+[license]: https://github.com/weaveworks/reignite/blob/main/LICENSE