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 ## Submission Guidelines
 Ketch follows a lightweight Pull Request process. When submitting a PR, answering a few [basic questions](https://github.com/theketchio/ketch/blob/main/.github/pull_request_template.md) around type of change and steps to test and you are well on your way to a PR approval.   
+
+## Your First Ketch Pull Request
+Please Fork the project and create a branch to make your changes to. Directly commit your changes to your branch and then when 
+ready to merge upstream, feel free to and create a PR. There are quality steps that need to be achieved. 
+
+`git checkout -b add-ketch-feature-of-squash-bug`
+
+### Running Tests
+As a good practice, locally running the integration tests is a good idea. Because during the CI Step e.g GitHub Actions, these will be
+run again as a quality gate. 
+
+#### Unit Tests
+Unit test coverage is in place. Running "make test" will run all of the Unit Tests e.g "Go Test". 
+`make test`
+
+Test coverage is represented as files suffixed as "test". A good idea is to include Unit Tests
+with your changes. 
+
+[Example Unit Test](https://github.com/theketchio/ketch/blob/main/internal/controllers/app_controller_test.go)
+
+#### Ketch CLI
+The CLI has integration tests if you are making CLI level changes. These tests will run the
+CLI against a live Ketch Installation. 
+
+`./cli_tests/app.sh`
+[Ketch App CLI Tests](https://github.com/theketchio/ketch/blob/main/cli_tests/app.sh#L3-L8)
+
+`./cli_tests/job.sh`
+[Ketch Jobs CLI Tests](https://github.com/theketchio/ketch/blob/main/cli_tests/job.sh#L3-L8)
+
+### Submitting PR
+When you commit via GitHub, there will be GitHub Actions that is ran on your behalf. 
+[GitHub Actions Config](https://github.com/theketchio/ketch/blob/main/.github/workflows/deploy.yaml#L50-L89)
+
+The GitHub Actions will create a temporary K3d cluster on the GitHub Actions Agent to run the tests. 
+
+Assuming everything passes in your branch, you are now ready to create a Pull Request and get ready for the merge. 
+
+#### PR Acceptance
+Currently, one Core Contributor will have to accept the Pull Request. Thanks for your PR!
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+Here is a list of Contributors to the Ketch Project. 
+
+# Core Contributors 
+
+* [John Shenk](https://github.com/stinkyfingers)
+* [Aleksej Paschenko](https://github.com/aleksej-paschenko)
+* [Ravi Lachhman](https://github.com/ravilach)
+* [Vivek Pandey](https://github.com/vivek)
+* [David French](https://github.com/DavisFrench)
+* [Stevan Koncar](https://github.com/koncar)
+* [Kumar Saurabh](https://github.com/itsksaurabh)
+* [Kavin Aravind](https://github.com/kavinaravind)
+
+Thanks so much for your contributions!