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+# Issue guidelines
+
+Welcome to the 🐸STT project! We are excited to see your interest, and appreciate your support!
+
+This repository is governed by the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct. For more details, see the [CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) file.
+
 For support and discussions, please use [GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/coqui-ai/STT/discussions).
 
 If you've found a bug, or have a feature request, then please create an issue with the following information:
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 - **OS Platform and Distribution (e.g., Linux Ubuntu 16.04)**:
 - **TensorFlow installed from (our builds, or upstream TensorFlow)**:
 - **TensorFlow version (use command below)**:
-- **Python version**: 
+- **Python version**:
 - **Bazel version (if compiling from source)**:
 - **GCC/Compiler version (if compiling from source)**:
 - **CUDA/cuDNN version**:
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+# Pull request guidelines
+
+Welcome to the 🐸STT project! We are excited to see your interest, and appreciate your support!
+
+This repository is governed by the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct. For more details, see the [CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) file.
+
+In order to make a good pull request, please see our [CONTRIBUTING.rst](CONTRIBUTING.rst) file, in particular make sure you have set-up and run the pre-commit hook to check your changes for code style violations.