From 2f3fa9e0d3138704b48e7c09a5aa4adc61377348 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Prem Palanisamy <i.prem.tsd@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 11:42:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] sync CONTRIBUTING.md with 1.8.x

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 CONTRIBUTING.md | 78 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 96b0614165..c6837673d5 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -222,73 +222,51 @@ Appwrite's current structure is a combination of both [Monolithic](https://en.wi
 ```bash
 .
 ├── app # Main application
-│   ├── assets
-│   │   ├── dbip
-│   │   ├── fonts
-│   │   └── security
 │   ├── config # Config files
-│   │   ├── avatars
-│   │   ├── collections
-│   │   ├── locale
-│   │   ├── specs
-│   │   ├── storage
-│   │   └── templates
 │   ├── controllers # API & dashboard controllers
 │   │   ├── api
 │   │   ├── shared
 │   │   └── web
-│   ├── init # DB schemas
-│   │   └── database
-│   └── views # HTML server-side templates
-│       ├── general
-│       └── install
+│   ├── db # DB schemas
+│   ├── sdks # SDKs generated copies (used for generating code examples)
+│   ├── tasks # Server CLI commands
+│   ├── views # HTML server-side templates
+│   └── workers # Background workers
 ├── bin # Server executables (tasks & workers)
-├── dev # Debugger config
+├── docker # Docker related resources and configs
 ├── docs # Docs and tutorials
 │   ├── examples
-│   ├── lists
 │   ├── references
-│   ├── sdks
 │   ├── services
 │   ├── specs
 │   └── tutorials
 ├── public # Public files
+│   ├── dist
 │   ├── fonts
 │   ├── images
-│   ├── sdk-console
-│   ├── sdk-project
-│   └── sdk-web
-├── src # Supporting libraries (each lib has one role, common libs are released as
-│   ├── Appwrite
-│   │   ├── Auth
-│   │   ├── Certificates
-│   │   ├── Deletes
-│   │   ├── Detector
-│   │   ├── Docker
-│   │   ├── Event
-│   │   ├── Extend
-│   │   ├── Functions/Validator
-│   │   ├── GraphQL
-│   │   ├── Hooks
-│   │   ├── Messaging
-│   │   ├── Migration
-│   │   ├── Network
-│   │   ├── OpenSSL
-│   │   ├── Platform
-│   │   ├── Promises
-│   │   ├── PubSub
-│   │   ├── SDK
-│   │   ├── Task/Validator
-│   │   ├── Template
-│   │   ├── Transformation
-│   │   ├── URL
-│   │   ├── Utopia
-│   │   └── Vcs
-│   └── Executor
+│   ├── scripts
+│   └── styles
+├── src # Supporting libraries (each lib has one role, common libs are released as individual projects)
+│   └── Appwrite
+│       ├── Auth
+│       ├── Detector
+│       ├── Docker
+|       ├── DSN
+│       ├── Event
+│       ├── Extend
+│       ├── GraphQL
+│       ├── Messaging
+│       ├── Migration
+│       ├── Network
+│       ├── OpenSSL
+│       ├── Promises
+│       ├── Specification
+│       ├── Task
+│       ├── Template
+│       ├── URL
+│       └── Utopia
 └── tests # End to end & unit tests
-    ├── benchmarks
     ├── e2e
-    ├── extensions
     ├── resources
     └── unit
 ```