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+## Contributing Guidelines
+
+The Dochub project accepts contributions via GitHub pull requests.
+This document outlines the process to help get your contribution accepted.
+
+
+## Versioning
+
+We use [semver](https://semver.org/) with pre-release as know release candidate (rc).