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 # Contributing to the Windows UI Library
 
-We welcome your input and contributions to all aspects of WinUI, including bug reports, doc updates, feature proposals, and code contributions.
+We welcome your input and contributions to all aspects of WinUI, including bug reports, doc updates, feature proposals, code contributions and API spec discussions.
 
 This document contains general guidance. More specific guidance is included in the documents linked below.
 
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  which can also be installed from the Windows Store:  
  https://www.microsoft.com/p/xaml-controls-gallery/9msvh128x2zt
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+ ## API spec discussions
+
+Before new features are added to WinUI, we always perform a thorough API review and spec discussion. This can range from a single new API to an entire new control featuring dozens of new APIs. Joining such a spec discussion is a great opportunity for developers to help ensuring that new WinUI APIs will look and feel natural. In addition, spec discussions are the follow-up to feature proposals and will go into much finer details than the initial proposal. As such, taking part in these discussions gives developers the chance to be involved in the complete development process of new WinUI features - from their initial high-level inception right down to specific implementation/behavior details.
+
+These discussions take place in this [repository](https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml-specs). While API specs for feature proposals will typically be linked to in the specific proposal on the WinUI repository, not all active API specs will immediately be mentioned there. Thus, if you don't want to miss out on them, we recommend that you [watch the repository](https://docs.github.com/enterprise/2.15/user/articles/watching-and-unwatching-repositories).