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# Contributing

This board is for questions that will probably fail. Everything here is public
from the first commit, a failed experiment included, and the one rule that keeps
that from producing a graveyard is that every experiment states its question
before it starts and its answer when it stops. The answer may be no. An
experiment with no written answer is not finished, it is abandoned, and the
difference is meant to be visible.
This board takes experiments from anybody, and it is for questions that will
probably fail. Everything here is public from the first commit, a failed
experiment included, and the one rule that keeps that from producing a
graveyard is that every experiment states its question before it starts and its
answer when it stops. The answer may be no. An experiment with no written answer
is not finished, it is abandoned, and the difference is meant to be visible.
Three rules have to be read before you start rather than after, because nothing
here refuses a violation of any of them: what may never be committed, in
[0006](docs/decisions/0006-everything-here-is-public.md) and again below; what
happens when an experiment finds a flaw in shipped software, in
[0010](docs/decisions/0010-a-flaw-in-shipped-software.md); and what an
experiment may do with real data, in [docs/privacy.md](docs/privacy.md), which
is the one this board has not finished writing and says so, with #35 holding
what is left. Why the door is open at that price is
[0024](docs/decisions/0024-who-may-run-an-experiment-here.md).

## Before you push

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