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CONTRIBUTING.md

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 Thank you for investing your time in contributing to our project!
 
-In this guide you will get an overview of the contribution workflow from opening an issue, creating a PR, reviewing, and merging the PR.
+In this guide you will get an overview of the contribution workflow from opening an issue, creating a merge request, reviewing
+and merging into the master branch.
 
 ## Issues
 
-If you find a problem or have a suggestion, please search for a related issue on the BGNet issue tracker. If you cannot find an existing 
-issue, please create a new one. Give a descriptive name to the issue and provide a clear description. 
+If you find a problem or have a suggestion, please search for a related issue on the BGNet issue tracker. If you cannot find an existing
+issue, please create a new one. Give a descriptive name to the issue and provide a clear description.
 
 ## Commit your update
 
-Create a new branch, implement your changes and do not forget to self review them. 
+Create a new branch from the drop down menu of your issue, implement your changes and do not forget to self review them.
 
-## Pull Request
+## Merge Request
 
-When you're finished with the changes, create a pull request, also known as a PR.
+When you're finished with the changes, create a merge request.
 
-- Give a descriptive name
-- Merge into the master branch 
-- Link to the pull request your issue 
+- Give a descriptive name (typically the name of the issue from which you created the brach)
+- Merge into the master branch
 - Add benjamin.schwenker as reviewer
 
-## Your PR is merged!
+The master branch is used as the production branch and is protected.
+
+## Your request is merged!
 
 Congratulation!
 
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 MIT, see [LICENSE](LICENSE).
 
-## Contributors 
+## Contributors
 
 The following people have contributed to the development of BGNet:
 
--benjamin.schwenker@phys.uni-goettingen.de  
--yannik.buch@desy.de
--lukas.herzberg@desy.de
+- benjamin.schwenker@phys.uni-goettingen.de
+- yannik.buch@desy.de
+- lukas.herzberg@desy.de