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+# Contributing to Serde
+
+Serde welcomes contribution from everyone in the form of suggestions, bug
+reports, pull requests, and feedback. This document gives some guidance if you
+are thinking of helping us.
+
+Please reach out here in a GitHub issue or in the #serde IRC channel on
+[`irc.mozilla.org`] if we can do anything to help you contribute.
+
+[`irc.mozilla.org`]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/IRC
+
+## Submitting bug reports and feature requests
+
+Serde development is spread across lots of repositories. In general, prefer to
+open issues against the main [serde-rs/serde] repository unless the topic is
+clearly specific to JSON.
+
+[serde-rs/serde]: https://github.com/serde-rs/serde
+
+When reporting a bug or asking for help, please include enough details so that
+the people helping you can reproduce the behavior you are seeing. For some tips
+on how to approach this, read about how to produce a [Minimal, Complete, and
+Verifiable example].
+
+[Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example]: https://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve
+
+When making a feature request, please make it clear what problem you intend to
+solve with the feature, any ideas for how Serde could support solving that
+problem, any possible alternatives, and any disadvantages.
+
+## Running the test suite
+
+We encourage you to check that the test suite passes locally before submitting a
+pull request with your changes. If anything does not pass, typically it will be
+easier to iterate and fix it locally than waiting for the CI servers to run
+tests for you.
+
+The test suite requires a nightly compiler.
+
+##### In the [`tests/deps`] directory
+
+```sh
+# This is a prerequisite for running the full test suite
+cargo clean && cargo update && cargo build
+```
+
+##### In the top level serde-json directory
+
+```sh
+# Run the full test suite, including doc test and compile-tests
+cargo test
+```
+
+[`tests/deps`]: https://github.com/serde-rs/json/tree/master/tests/deps
+
+## Conduct
+
+In all Serde-related forums, we follow the [Rust Code of Conduct]. For
+escalation or moderation issues please contact Erick (erick.tryzelaar@gmail.com)
+instead of the Rust moderation team.
+
+[Rust Code of Conduct]: https://www.rust-lang.org/conduct.html