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-CONTRIBUTING GUIDELINES
+# Contributing to Community Charts
+
+Litmus Community-Charts is an Apache 2.0 Licensed project that uses the standard GitHub pull requests process to review and accept 
+contributions. This repository is the canonical source for the chaos charts that appear on [hub.litmuschaos.io](https://hub.litmuschaos.io)
+
+Chaos Charts are a groups of categorized chaos experiments, represented as custom resource definitions that can be executed by the 
+[Litmus Chaos Operator](https://github.com/litmuschaos/chaos-operator). We would love to see your charts added to the list of community-charts. 
+
+To get started, read on!
+
+## How to Contribute a Chaos Chart
+
+The creation of a chaos chart or subchart involves the following steps: 
+
+- Creation of Litmusbooks
+- Creation of Experiment CRs
+- Creation of ChartServiceVersion Templates
+
+These are briefly described below. 
+
+
+### Litmusbooks
+
+Litmusbooks are the execution units of the chaos experiments. They are Kubernetes Jobs running the test containers (mostly running ansible playbooks, 
+but could be any other scripting/programming language as long as the input and output interfaces are satisfied!). The experiments typically
+involve definition of the entry/exit(health) criteria, creation of library utils (reusable code tasks/code-blocks) and the experiment business logic.
+
+A detailed guide for creation on ansible-based litmusbooks is provided in the [Litmusbook Cookbook](https://docs.litmuschaos.io/docs/next/cb-overview.html)
+
+The Litmusbooks are maintained in the [Litmus](https://github.com/litmuschaos/litmus) repo. View the PR checklist for the litmusbooks [here](https://github.com/litmuschaos/litmus/blob/master/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md)
+
+### Experiment Custom Resources
+
+The experiment CRs are a custom/condensed representation of a litmusbook where ENVs and experiment execution info is specified. The experiment CRs 
+help categorization (a chart can have subcharts), bundling & lighter/less cluttered interface for tuning by developers who can readily deploy a desired 
+chaos profile in their deployment environments. The chaos experiments are used by the Litmus Chaos Operator to orchestrate the chaos. 
+
+Here is an example custom resource for a random [pod-delete](https://github.com/litmuschaos/community-charts/blob/master/charts/kubernetes/state/experiments/pod-delete-exp.v0.1.0.yaml) experiment 
+
+### ChartServiceVersion (CSV) Templates
+
+The CSV specifies the metadata associated with the chart. A defined template (inspired by the CSV of Operator framework) is used to render this metadata 
+information on the hub.litmuschaos.io. Each chart/subchart is accompanied by its respective CSV. Here is an example detailing the [Kubernetes](https://github.com/litmuschaos/community-charts/blob/master/charts/kubernetes/kubernetes.chartserviceversion.yaml) chaos chart.
+
+The Package YAML is used to define the hierarchy/parent-child relationship of charts & subcharts. It is used to structure the pages on hub.litmuschaos.io.
+
+
+