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-If you would like to contribute to the development of OpenStack,
-you must follow the steps in this page:
-[http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html](http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html)
-
-If you already have a good understanding of how the system works and
-your OpenStack accounts are set up, you can skip to the development
-workflow section of this documentation to learn how changes to
-OpenStack should be submitted for review via the Gerrit tool:
-[http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html#development-workflow](http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html#development-workflow).
-
-Pull requests submitted through GitHub will be ignored.
-
-Bugs should be filed [on Launchpad](https://bugs.launchpad.net/manila),
-not in GitHub's issue tracker.
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+If you would like to contribute to the development of OpenStack,
+you must follow the steps in this page:
+
+   http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html
+
+Once those steps have been completed, changes to OpenStack
+should be submitted for review via the Gerrit tool, following
+the workflow documented at:
+
+   http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html#development-workflow
+
+Pull requests submitted through GitHub will be ignored.
+
+Bugs should be filed on Launchpad, not GitHub:
+
+   https://bugs.launchpad.net/manila
+
+
+