Add a Contributions section to README.md
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You can test your installation by running `allennlp test-install`.
+## Issues
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+Everyone is welcome to file issues with either feature requests, bug reports, or general questions. As a small team with our own internal goals, we may ask for contributions if a prompt fix doesn't fit into our roadmap. We allow users a two week window to follow up on questions, after which we will close issues. They can be re-opened if there is further discussion.
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+## Contributions
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+The AllenNLP team at AI2 (@allenai) welcomes contributions from the greater AllenNLP community, and, if you would like to get a change into the library, this is likely the fastest approach. If you would like to contribute a larger feature, we recommend first creating an issue with a proposed design for discussion. This will prevent you from spending significant time on an implementation which has a technical limitation someone could have pointed out early on. Small contributions can be made directly in a pull request.
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+Pull requests (PRs) must have one approving review and no requested changes before they are merged. As AllenNLP is primarily driven by AI2 (@allenai) we reserve the right to reject or revert contributions that we don't think are good additions.
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## Citing
If you use AllenNLP in your research, please cite [AllenNLP: A Deep Semantic Natural Language Processing Platform](https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/AllenNLP%3A-A-Deep-Semantic-Natural-Language-Platform-Gardner-Grus/a5502187140cdd98d76ae711973dbcdaf1fef46d).
