diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.rst b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
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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
-
-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/tempest_config_tool
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-include AUTHORS
-include ChangeLog
-exclude .gitignore
-exclude .gitreview
-
-global-exclude *.pyc
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-[python: **.py]
-