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+name: Bug Report
+description: File a bug report.
+title: "bug: "
+labels: ["bug"]
+assignees:
+  - edera-dev/engineering
+body:
+  - type: markdown
+    attributes:
+      value: |
+        Thanks for taking the time to fill out this bug report!
+  - type: textarea
+    id: what-happened
+    attributes:
+      label: What happened?
+      description: Also tell us, what did you expect to happen?
+      placeholder: Tell us what you see!
+      value: "A bug happened!"
+    validations:
+      required: true
+  - type: input
+    id: version
+    attributes:
+      label: Version / Commit
+      description: What version of our software are you running?
+    validations:
+      required: true
+  - type: textarea
+    id: logs
+    attributes:
+      label: Relevant log output
+      description: Please copy and paste any relevant log output. This will be automatically formatted into code, so no need for backticks.
+      render: shell
+
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+# Contributing to Krata
+
+Welcome! We're very glad you're reading this; Edera is excited for all kinds of contributions! Please read the following to ensure you're aware of our flow and policies.  
+
+## Before contributing
+
+1. Please read our [Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md), which applies to all interactions in/with all Edera projects and venues.
+2. Before opening an issue or PR, please try a few searches to see if there is overlap with existing conversations or WIP contributions.
+3. For security or otherwise sensitive topics, please read our [Security Policy].
+4. Ask questions! If you want to ask something, chances are someone else wants to ask it as well.
+
+## Contributing Code
+
+To get started with technical contributions, please read out [Development Guide]. If you're looking for something easy to tackle, [look for issues labeled `good first issue`][good-first-issue].  
+
+## Reporting bugs and other issues
+
+While it's totally fine to simply bring it up on our Discord, we encourage opening an issue on GitHub using the Bug Report template.  
+
+## Pull Requests
+
+1. For anything more than simple bug/doc fixes, please open a GitHub issue for tracking purposes.
+  - Else skip to step 3.
+2. Discuss the change with the teams to ensure we have consensus on the change being welcome.
+3. We encourage opening the PR sooner than later, and prefixing with `WIP:` so GitHub labels it as a Draft.
+4. Please include a detailed list of changes that the PR makes
+5. Once the PR is ready for review, remove the Draft status, and request a review from `edera-dev/engineering`.
+6. After the review cycle concludes and we know you are ready for merging, a team member will submit the PR to the merge queue.
+
+
+[Code of Conduct]: ./CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
+[Security Policy]: ./SECURITY.md
+[Development Guide]: ./DEV.md
+[good-first-issues]: https://github.com/edera-dev/krata/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22