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+# Contributing
+
+Thank you for your interest in go-toml! We appreciate you considering
+contributing to go-toml!
+
+The main goal is the project is to provide an easy-to-use and efficient TOML
+implementation for Go that gets the job done and gets out of your way – dealing
+with TOML is probably not the central piece of your project.
+
+As the single maintainer of go-toml, time is scarce. All help, big or small, is
+more than welcomed!
+
+## Ask questions
+
+Any question you may have, somebody else might have it too. Always feel free to
+ask them on the [discussion board][discussions]. We will try to answer them as
+clearly and quickly as possible, time permitting.
+
+Asking questions also helps us identify areas where the documentation needs
+improvement, or new features that weren't envisioned before. Sometimes, a
+seemingly innocent question leads to the fix of a bug. Don't hesitate and ask
+away!
+
+[discussions]: https://github.com/pelletier/go-toml/discussions
+
+## Improve the documentation
+
+The best way to share your knowledge and experience with go-toml is to improve
+the documentation. Fix a typo, clarify an interface, add an example, anything
+goes!
+
+The documentation is present in the [README][readme] and thorough the source
+code. On release, it gets updated on [pkg.go.dev][pkg.go.dev]. To make a change
+to the documentation, create a pull request with your proposed changes. For
+simple changes like that, the easiest way to go is probably the "Fork this
+project and edit the file" button on Github, displayed at the top right of the
+file. Unless it's a trivial change (for example a typo), provide a little bit of
+context in your pull request description or commit message.
+
+## Report a bug
+
+Found a bug! Sorry to hear that :(. Help us and other track them down and fix by
+reporting it. [File a new bug report][bug-report] on the [issues
+tracker][issues-tracker]. The template should provide enough guidance on what to
+include. When in doubt: add more details! By reducing ambiguity and providing
+more information, it decreases back and forth and saves everyone time.
+
+## Code changes
+
+Want to contribute a patch? Very happy to hear that!
+
+First, some high-level rules:
+
+- A short proposal with some POC code is better than a lengthy piece of text
+  with no code. Code speaks louder than words. That being said, bigger changes
+  should probably start with a [discussion][discussions].
+- No backward-incompatible patch will be accepted unless discussed. Sometimes
+  it's hard, but we try not to break people's programs unless we absolutely have
+  to.
+- If you are writing a new feature or extending an existing one, make sure to
+  write some documentation.
+- Bug fixes need to be accompanied with regression tests.
+- New code needs to be tested.
+- Your commit messages need to explain why the change is needed, even if already
+  included in the PR description.
+
+It does sound like a lot, but those best practices are here to save time overall
+and continuously improve the quality of the project, which is something everyone
+benefits from.
+
+### Get started
+
+The fairly standard code contribution process looks like that:
+
+1. [Fork the project][fork].
+2. Make your changes, commit on any branch you like.
+3. [Open up a pull request][pull-request]
+4. Review, potential ask for changes.
+5. Merge.
+
+Feel free to ask for help! You can create draft pull requests to gather
+some early feedback!
+
+### Run the tests
+
+You can run tests for go-toml using Go's test tool: `go test -race ./...`.
+
+During the pull request process, all tests will be ran on Linux, Windows, and
+MacOS on the last two versions of Go.
+
+However, given GitHub's new policy to _not_ run Actions on pull requests until a
+maintainer clicks on button, it is highly recommended that you run them locally
+as you make changes.
+
+### Check coverage
+
+We use `go tool cover` to compute test coverage. Most code editors have a way to
+run and display code coverage, but at the end of the day, we do this:
+
+```
+go test -covermode=atomic -coverprofile=coverage.out
+go tool cover -func=coverage.out
+```
+
+and verify that the overall percentage of tested code does not go down. This is
+a requirement. As a rule of thumb, all lines of code touched by your changes
+should be covered. On Unix you can use `./ci.sh coverage -d v2` to check if your
+code lowers the coverage.
+
+### Verify performance
+
+Go-toml aims to stay efficient. We rely on a set of scenarios executed with Go's
+builtin benchmark systems. Because of their noisy nature, containers provided by
+Github Actions cannot be reliably used for benchmarking. As a result, you are
+responsible for checking that your changes do not incur a performance penalty.
+You can run their following to execute benchmarks:
+
+```
+go test ./... -bench=. -count=10
+```
+
+Benchmark results should be compared against each other with
+[benchstat][benchstat]. Typical flow looks like this:
+
+1. On the `v2` branch, run `go test ./... -bench=. -count 10` and save output to
+   a file (for example `old.txt`).
+2. Make some code changes.
+3. Run `go test ....` again, and save the output to an other file (for example
+   `new.txt`).
+4. Run `benchstat old.txt new.txt` to check that time/op does not go up in any
+   test.
+
+On Unix you can use `./ci.sh benchmark -d v2` to verify how your code impacts
+performance.
+
+It is highly encouraged to add the benchstat results to your pull request
+description. Pull requests that lower performance will receive more scrutiny.
+
+[benchstat]: https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/perf/cmd/benchstat
+
+### Style
+
+Try to look around and follow the same format and structure as the rest of the
+code. We enforce using `go fmt` on the whole code base.
+
+---
+
+## Maintainers-only
+
+### Merge pull request
+
+Checklist:
+
+- Passing CI.
+- Does not introduce backward-incompatible changes (unless discussed).
+- Has relevant doc changes.
+- Benchstat does not show performance regression.
+- Pull request is [labeled appropriately][pr-labels].
+- Title will be understandable in the changelog.
+
+1. Merge using "squash and merge".
+2. Make sure to edit the commit message to keep all the useful information
+   nice and clean.
+3. Make sure the commit title is clear and contains the PR number (#123).
+
+### New release
+
+1. Decide on the next version number. Use semver.
+2. Generate release notes using [`gh`][gh]. Example:
+```
+$ gh api -X POST \
+  -F tag_name='v2.0.0-beta.5' \
+  -F target_commitish='v2' \
+  -F previous_tag_name='v2.0.0-beta.4' \
+  --jq '.body' \
+  repos/pelletier/go-toml/releases/generate-notes
+```
+3. Look for "Other changes". That would indicate a pull request not labeled
+   properly. Tweak labels and pull request titles until changelog looks good for
+   users.
+4. [Draft new release][new-release].
+5. Fill tag and target with the same value used to generate the changelog.
+6. Set title to the new tag value.
+7. Paste the generated changelog.
+8. Check "create discussion", in the "Releases" category.
+9. Check pre-release if new version is an alpha or beta.
+
+[issues-tracker]: https://github.com/pelletier/go-toml/issues
+[bug-report]: https://github.com/pelletier/go-toml/issues/new?template=bug_report.md
+[pkg.go.dev]: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/pelletier/go-toml
+[readme]: ./README.md
+[fork]: https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo
+[pull-request]: https://help.github.com/en/articles/creating-a-pull-request
+[new-release]: https://github.com/pelletier/go-toml/releases/new
+[gh]: https://github.com/cli/cli
+[pr-labels]: https://github.com/pelletier/go-toml/blob/v2/.github/release.yml