Repository maintainers can set contributing guidelines to help collaborators make meaningful, useful contributions to a project.

Setting guidelines for repository contributors

To help your project contributors do good work, you can add a file with contribution guidelines to the root of your project's repository. Then, whenever someone opens a pull request or creates an issue, they will see a link to that file.

Creating an issue template for your repository

When you add an issue template to your repository, project contributors will automatically see the template's contents in the issue form body. Templates customize and standardize the information you'd like included when contributors open issues.

Creating a pull request template for your repository

When you add a pull request template to your repository, project contributors will automatically see the template's contents in the pull request form body. Templates customize and standardize the information you'd like included when contributors create pull requests.