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-|Build Status| |Codecov| |license|
-
 frontend-app-discussions
 ========================
 
-Please tag **@edx/fedx-team** on any PRs or issues.  Thanks.
+|Build Status| |Codecov| |license|
 
-Introduction
-------------
+Purpose
+-------
 
 This repository is a React-based micro frontend for the Open edX discussion forums.
 
-**Installation and Startup**
+Getting Started
+---------------
 
 1. Clone your new repo:
 
@@ -26,6 +25,39 @@ This repository is a React-based micro frontend for the Open edX discussion foru
 
 The dev server is running at `http://localhost:2002 <http://localhost:2002>`_.
 
+Getting Help
+------------
+Please tag **@edx/fedx-team** on any PRs or issues.  Thanks.
+If you're having trouble, we have discussion forums at https://discuss.openedx.org where you can connect with others in the community.
+For anything non-trivial, the best path is to open an issue in this repository with as many details about the issue you are facing as you can provide.
+
+https://github.com/openedx/frontend-app-discussions/issues
+
+For more information about these options, see the `Getting Help`_ page.
+
+.. _Getting Help: https://openedx.org/getting-help
+
+How to Contribute
+-----------------
+Details about how to become a contributor to the Open edX project may be found in the wiki at `How to contribute`_
+
+.. _How to contribute: https://openedx.org/r/how-to-contribute
+
+
+The Open edX Code of Conduct
+----------------------------
+All community members should familarize themselves with the `Open edX Code of Conduct`_.
+
+.. _Open edX Code of Conduct: https://openedx.org/code-of-conduct/
+
+People
+------
+The assigned maintainers for this component and other project details may be found in Backstage or groked from inspecting catalog-info.yaml.
+
+Reporting Security Issues
+-------------------------
+Please do not report security issues in public. Please email security@edx.org.
+
 Project Structure
 -----------------
 
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-   :target: @edx/frontend-app-discussions
+   :target: @edx/frontend-app-discussions
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+# This file records information about this repo. Its use is described in OEP-55:
+# https://open-edx-proposals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/processes/oep-0055-proc-project-maintainers.html
+
+apiVersion: backstage.io/v1alpha1
+# (Required) Acceptable Values: Component, Resource, System
+# A repo will almost certainly be a Component.
+kind: Component
+metadata:
+  name: 'frontend-app-discussions'
+  description: "The discussion forum for openEdx discussions"
+  links:
+    - url: "https://github.com/openedx/frontend-app-discussions"
+      title: "Frontend app discussions"
+      # Backstage uses the MaterialUI Icon Set.
+      # https://mui.com/material-ui/material-icons/
+      # The value will be the name of the icon.
+      icon: "Web"
+  annotations:
+    # (Optional) Annotation keys and values can be whatever you want.
+    # We use it in Open edX repos to have a comma-separated list of GitHub user
+    # names that might be interested in changes to the architecture of this
+    # component.
+    openedx.org/arch-interest-groups: ""
+spec:
+
+  # (Required) This can be a group (`group:<github_group_name>`) or a user (`user:<github_username>`).
+  # Don't forget the "user:" or "group:" prefix. Groups must be GitHub team
+  # names in the openedx GitHub organization: https://github.com/orgs/openedx/teams
+  #
+  # If you need a new team created, create an issue with tCRIL engineering:
+  # https://github.com/openedx/tcril-engineering/issues/new/choose
+  owner: group:infinity
+
+  # (Required) Acceptable Type Values: service, website, library
+  type: 'website'
+
+  # (Required) Acceptable Lifecycle Values: experimental, production, deprecated
+  lifecycle: 'production'
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