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+Thank you so much for helping on cursive!
+
+Here are a few guidelines to help make sure your contribution goes as smoothly as possible.
+
+## You found a bug
+
+This is still a young library, and bugs are sure to be hiding everywhere. If you found one, great!
+
+* Please mention the operating system you are using. If you are manually selecting a backend, please mention this as well.
+* Try to provide "simple" (if possible) code to reproduce the bug. If you can't simplify your code, a complete code is better than a simple, but incomplete one.
+* If relevant, you can post a screenshot describing the problem.
+
+## Improvement idea
+
+If you have an idea you think would make this library better, we're all ears!
+
+* Describe your use-case: what do you want to achieve with this improvement?
+
+## Pull requests
+
+If you feel like digging in the code, thank you again! We're very grateful for your work.
+
+* Format your code with rustfmt.
+* Make sure all tests are passing - it's very easy to forget a backend! If you start a Pull Request, travis will check all backends for you.
+* Only use stable rust features. This library should compile on rust stable.