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## Contributing
Contributions are encouraged! You could add a translations of the specification
in another language or a new starting point for your favorite programming
language. Please see [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md) for more details.
I have been struggling for some time with the maintenance burden for the Gilded Rose respository. I get frequent spurious pull requests from people who have been assigned to work on it as an exercise by some other organization (I don't know who) and mistakenly send me a pull request with their solution. I get so many of these it's a significant amount of work to check that they aren't a legitimate contribution. It's really annoying. I have sadly now added a restriction now so that only prior contributors can now open issues, comment, or create pull requests.
If you would like to make an actual contribution that improves the starting position of the exercise, please see [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md) for some ideas about how to get involved.