# Contributing Guide

Thank you for considering contributing to Carp!

This document currently focuses on developer contributions but we welcome all kinds of contributions.

## Community
The best place to start is to join the Carp Gitter channel over at
[https://gitter.im/carp-lang/Carp](https://gitter.im/carp-lang/Carp).

## Understanding the Compiler
See [Hacking.md](hacking.md) for a gentle introduction to the Carp compiler internals.

## Committing to the repo
We follow [Conventional Commits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org), there is
a `commit-msg` hook to ensure the messages follow the convention, please make
sure you have run `./scripts/git-hooks/setup.sh` before you commit the first
time so that the hook is in place.

License
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Carp is currently released under the terms of the ASL 2.0 license.