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+# Contributing
+
+Welcome to `pywal`, here's how you can contribute.
+
+
+### Environment Details
+
+- Linux
+- Python `3.6`
+
+
+### Development Dependencies
+
+All contributions and changes to `wal` must pass both `flake8` and `pylint` linters unless you have ample reason for disabling a specific message. Travis.ci will automatically run the tests every time you push a new commit to a Pull Request on the repo.
+
+```py
+pip install flake8 pylint
+```
+
+
+### Tests
+
+Tests haven't been written yet.
+
+
+### Commit Message Style
+
+I'm not fussed if you don't follow this one too closely as I'm guilty of forgetting at times. The commit style that should be used on this repo is as follows:
+
+```sh
+# topic: Short sentence about changes. Closes #issue_number
+# Example:
+git commit -m "export: Added export format for emacs. Closes #11"
+```