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+=================
+How to contribute
+=================
+
+Our community welcomes all people interested in open source cloud
+computing, and encourages you to join the `OpenStack Foundation
+<https://www.openstack.org/join>`_.
+
+The best way to get involved with the community is to talk with others
+online or at a meet up and offer contributions through our processes,
+the `OpenStack wiki <https://wiki.openstack.org>`_, blogs, or on IRC at
+``#openstack`` on ``irc.freenode.net``.
+
+We welcome all types of contributions, from blueprint designs to
+documentation to testing to deployment scripts.
+
+If you would like to contribute to the documents, please see the
+`OpenStack Documentation Contributor Guide
+<http://docs.openstack.org/contributor-guide/>`_.
+
+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
+
+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
+
+Pull requests submitted through GitHub will be ignored.
+
+Bugs should be filed on Launchpad, not GitHub:
+
+   https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals
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-Contributing
-============
-
-Our community welcomes all people interested in open source cloud
-computing, and encourages you to join the `OpenStack Foundation
-<https://www.openstack.org/join>`_.
-
-The best way to get involved with the community is to talk with others
-online or at a meet up and offer contributions through our processes,
-the `OpenStack wiki <https://wiki.openstack.org>`_, blogs, or on IRC at
-``#openstack`` on ``irc.freenode.net``.
-
-We welcome all types of contributions, from blueprint designs to
-documentation to testing to deployment scripts.
-
-If you would like to contribute to the documents, please see the
-`OpenStack Documentation Contributor Guide
-<http://docs.openstack.org/contributor-guide/>`_.
-
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