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+# NIOExtras
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+NIOExtras is a good place for code that is related to NIO but not core. It can also be used to incubate APIs for tasks that are possible with core-NIO but are cumbersome today.
+
+What makes a good contribution to NIOExtras?
+
+- a protocol encoder/decoder pair (also called "codec") that is often used but is small enough so it doesn't need its own repository
+- a helper to achieve a task that is harder-than-necessary to achieve with core-NIO
+
+## Code Quality / Stability
+
+All code will go through code review like in the other repositories related to the SwiftNIO project.
+
+The policies about breaking API changes in this repository are not as strictly
+followed as in the other SwiftNIO repositories. We indicate this by starting
+with major version 0 (`0.x.y`). We will try to increment the minor version
+number whenever there is a breaking change until we release `1.0.0` when we will
+start to follow the usual SemVer requirements. We recommend that users depend on
+the exact version.
+
+## Using NIOExtras:
+
+    dependencies: [
+        .package(url: "https://github.com/apple/swift-nio-extras.git", .exact("0.0.1")),
+    ],
+
+## Current Contents
+
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