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 ### User-contributed code (scripts, programs, ...)
 
+Note: linking to contributors' public pages (github, gitlab, plain web page, ...) is preferred over hosting (otherwise contributors have to submit PRs to update their *own* code because of the lack of granular write privileges on github - this is cumbersome and requires reviewer time to ack PRs).
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 **`dom0/`** - things meant to be run in dom0
 
 - qvm-copy-to-dom0: copy files to dom0 (moving files to dom0 is dangerous and discouraged though)