First and foremost, start small.
This doesn't mean don't be ambitious with the breadth and depth of your contributions but rather
-understand the project context and culture before investing an asymmetric number of hours on
+understand the project culture before investing an asymmetric number of hours on
development compared to your merged work.
+Browsing through the [meeting minutes](https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-lightning/wiki/Meetings)
+is a good first step. You will learn who is working on what, how releases are drafted, what are the
+pending tasks to deliver, where you can contribute review bandwidth, etc.
+
Even if you have an extensive open source background or sound software engineering skills, consider
that the reviewers' comprehension of the code is as much important as technical correctness.
If you're eager to increase the velocity of the dev process, reviewing other contributors work is
the best you can do while waiting review on yours.
+Also, getting familiar with the [glossary](GLOSSARY.md) will streamline discussions with regular contributors.
+
Contribution Workflow
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When refactoring, structure your PR to make it easy to review and don't
hestitate to split it into multiple small, focused PRs.
-The Minimal Supported Rust Version is 1.30.0 (enforced by our Travis and
-GitHub Actions).
+The Minimal Supported Rust Version is 1.36.0 (enforced by our GitHub Actions).
Commits should cover both the issue fixed and the solution's rationale.
These [guidelines](https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/) should be kept in mind.
cargo clippy
```
+Significant structures that users persist should always have their serialization methods (usually
+`Writeable::write` and `ReadableArgs::read`) begin with
+`write_ver_prefix!()`/`read_ver_prefix!()` calls, and end with calls to
+`write_tlv_fields!()`/`read_tlv_fields!()`.
+
+Updates to the serialized format which has implications for backwards or forwards compatibility
+must be included in release notes.
+
Security
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