Audience of this HowTo Audience of CONTRIBUTING.md Required by CNCF Maintainers Contributors Yes, sandbox and higher This HowTo is for project maintainers who need a Contributing Guide for their project. The goal of a CONTRIBUTING.md file is to increase the number of successful contributors to your project. A great contributing guide will: Demonstrate to new contributors that your project has a good contributor experience. Improve the quality of contributions to your project.