Commit dc4f22f6 by Tobias Schuele

Added table of contents to CONTRIBUTING.md

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Introduction
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Table of Contents
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1. Introduction
2. Development Environment
- Directory Structure
- Branches
- Contributing
3. Coding Guidelines
- General
- Tool Support
4. Documentation Guidelines
- General
- Special Commands
- Structure
- Example
5. How to port EMB²
1. Introduction
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The EMB² team welcomes all kinds of feedback and contributions. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions, comments, bug reports, suggestions for improvement, extensions or the like (see [README.md](https://github.com/siemens/embb/blob/master/README.md) for general contact information). In the following, we give an overview of the development environment as well as coding and documentation guidelines, and sketch how to port EMB² to other platforms.
Development Environment
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2. Development Environment
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### Directory Structure
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Bug fixes, extensions, etc. can be contributed as pull requests via GitHub or as patches via the development mailing list (mailto:embb-dev@googlegroups.com). If possible, please refer to a current snapshot of the master branch.
Coding Guidelines
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3. Coding Guidelines
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### General
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Documentation Guidelines
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The source code is documented using [Doxygen](http::www.doxygen.org/). Please adhere to the following rules:
4. Documentation Guidelines
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### General
The source code is documented using [Doxygen](http::www.doxygen.org/). Please adhere to the following rules:
- Document at least all entities visible to the user (API).
- Member variables need only be documented if their names are not self-explanatory.
- Check whether Doxygen emits any warnings or errors (e.g., undocumented functions).
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How to port EMB²
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5. How to port EMB²
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EMB² is easily portable to platforms unsupported so far. Almost all platform specific code is located in the ```base_c``` and ```base_cpp``` directories, and platform specific code is fenced using ```EMBB_PLATFORM_*``` defines.
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