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+# Contributing
+
+First, thank you for contributing! We love and encourge pull requests from everyone.
+
+Here are a few guidelines to follow:
+
+1. Open an [issue][issues] to discuss a new feature.
+1. Write tests.
+1. Make sure the entire test suite passes locally and on Travis CI.
+1. Open a Pull Request.
+1. [Squash your commits][squash] after receiving feedback and add a [great commit message][message].
+1. Have fun!
+
+[issues]: https://github.com/go-kit/kit/issues
+[squash]: http://gitready.com/advanced/2009/02/10/squashing-commits-with-rebase.html
+[message]: https://github.com/go-kit/kit/issues
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 	stdlog.SetOutput(kitlog.NewStdlibAdapter(logger))
 }
 ```
+
+## Contributing
+
+Please see [CONTRIBUTING.md]. Thank you, [contributors]!
+
+[CONTRIBUTING.md]: /CONTRIBUTING.md
+[contributors]: https://github.com/go-kit/kit/graphs/contributors