Merge pull request #439 from sroopsai/issue436

Add Contributing Guidelines

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Contributing Guidelines
+
+Thank you for considering contributing to our project! We welcome contributions from everyone and appreciate your interest in making our project better.
+
+## Sign off Your Work
+
+The Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) is a lightweight way for contributors to certify that they wrote or otherwise have the right to submit the code they are contributing to the project. Here is the full text of the [DCO](http://developercertificate.org/). Contributors must sign-off that they adhere to these requirements by adding a `Signed-off-by` line to commit messages.
+
+```text
+This is my commit message
+
+Signed-off-by: John Doe <[email protected]>
+```
+
+See `git help commit`:
+
+```text
+-s, --signoff
+    Add Signed-off-by line by the committer at the end of the commit log
+    message. The meaning of a signoff depends on the project, but it typically
+    certifies that committer has the rights to submit this work under the same
+    license and agrees to a Developer Certificate of Origin (see
+    http://developercertificate.org/ for more information).
+```
+
+## Getting Started
+
+1. **Fork the repository**: Click the "Fork" button at the top right corner of the repository's page on GitHub.
+2. **Clone your fork**: Use `git clone` to clone the repository to your local machine.
+3. **Set up remote upstream**: Add the original repository as a remote named "upstream" using `git remote add upstream [original repository URL]`.
+4. **Create a new branch**: Use `git checkout -b [branch-name]` to create a new branch for your contribution.
+
+## Making Changes
+
+1. **Make your changes**: Implement the changes or additions you want to make. Please follow any coding standards and guidelines provided in the project.
+2. **Test your changes**: Ensure that your changes work as expected and don't introduce any new issues. Depending on the scope of your changes you may rely on our CI pipelines or run the following tests:
+   - **Unit tests**: Execute unit tests using the provided scripts. Use: `npm run test:unit`.
+   - **End-to-End (E2E) tests**: Execute E2E tests using the provided scripts. Use: `npm run test:e2e`.
+   - **Ent-to-End network tests**: Execute relevant shell scripts from `e2e-network` directory with E2E network tests.
+3. **Update snapshots**: If you've made changes that affect snapshots (esp. any template changes), update them using `npm run test:e2e-update`.
+
+## ## Running Fablo locally
+
+You may want to verify some changes by running Fablo locally. To do so:
+1. Execute `./fablo-build.sh` script to create a Fablo Docker image locally.
+2. Use `./fablo.sh` from source root directory to call Fablo commands.
+
+## Submitting Changes
+
+1. **Push your changes**: Once you've made and tested your changes, push them to your forked repository with `git push origin [branch-name]`.
+2. **Create a pull request**: Go to the original repository on GitHub and create a pull request from your forked branch to the main branch.
+3. **Provide details**: Give your pull request a descriptive title and provide details about the changes you've made.
+4. **Review process**: Your pull request will be reviewed by maintainers. Be responsive to any feedback and make necessary changes.
+
+We appreciate your contributions and look forward to working with you!
+

README.md

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 Fablo can run [Blockchain Explorer](https://github.com/hyperledger/blockchain-explorer) for you.
 Provide for your organization `"tools": { "explorer": true }`, if you want to use it per organization, or provide the same value in `global` section of the config, if you want to use one global Explorer for all organizations.
 
+## Contributing
+
+We'd love to have you contribute! Please refer to our [contribution guidelines](https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/fablo/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.
+
+
 ## Testimonials
 
 Fablo was originally created at [SoftwareMill](https://softwaremill.com) by [@Hejwo](https://github.com/Hejwo/) and [@dzikowski](https://github.com/dzikowski/).