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new 98502904 [docs] Link community contributing guidelines (#1579)
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commit 985029042199d870f25b6fbec0e80907d4440f41
Author: Kevin Liu <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon Jan 27 10:45:45 2025 -0500
[docs] Link community contributing guidelines (#1579)
Closes #970
This PR links community guideline on contribution,
https://iceberg.apache.org/contribute/

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Co-authored-by: Fokko Driesprong <[email protected]>
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- under the License.
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-# Contributing to the Iceberg Python library
+# Contributing
+
+We welcome contributions to Apache Iceberg! To learn more about contributing
to Apache Iceberg, please refer to the [official Iceberg contribution
guidelines](https://iceberg.apache.org/contribute/). These guidelines are
intended as helpful suggestions to make the contribution process as seamless as
possible, and are not strict rules.
+
+If you would like to discuss your proposed change before contributing, we
encourage you to visit our [Community](https://iceberg.apache.org/community/)
page. There, you will find various ways to connect with the community,
including Slack and our mailing lists. Alternatively, you can open a [new
issue](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/issues) directly in the GitHub
repository.
+
+For first-time contributors, feel free to check out our [good first
issues](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/issues/?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22good%20first%20issue%22)
for an easy way to get started.
+
+## Contributing to PyIceberg
+
+The PyIceberg Project is hosted on GitHub at
<https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python>.
For the development, Poetry is used for packing and dependency management. You
can install this using: