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-# PeerNotes
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+# PeerNotes (In Progress)
+Repository for a course project of CS4675/CS6675 at Georgia Institute of Technology.
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+## Advisory for Contributors
+<ul>
+  <li>Please do not commit any code to the main branch directly</li>
+  <li>Use feature branches, ideally with your name and the feature it is for mentioned in the branch name eg. feature_aman_login</li>
+  <li>Raise a PR once you are ready and have checked your code for errors.</li>
+  <li>Mention a bullet point summary for all the features you are pushing as part of the PR within the description to ease the review process</li>
+</ul>