In order to make contributing to the repository straightforward we could add the relevant GitHub documentation pages: - [Contributor guidelines](https://docs.github.com/en/communities/setting-up-your-project-for-healthy-contributions/setting-guidelines-for-repository-contributors) - [Issue template](https://docs.github.com/en/communities/using-templates-to-encourage-useful-issues-and-pull-requests/about-issue-and-pull-request-templates#issue-templates) - [Pull request template](https://docs.github.com/en/communities/using-templates-to-encourage-useful-issues-and-pull-requests/about-issue-and-pull-request-templates#pull-request-templates) - [Code of conduct](https://docs.github.com/en/communities/setting-up-your-project-for-healthy-contributions/adding-a-code-of-conduct-to-your-project) (might be overkill) Other Java repositories for inspiration: - [Guava](https://github.com/google/guava) - [Spring framework](https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework)