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+If you would like to contribute to the development of OpenStack,
+you must follow the steps in the "If you're a developer, start here"
+section of this page: [http://wiki.openstack.org/HowToContribute](http://wiki.openstack.org/HowToContribute#If_you.27re_a_developer.2C_start_here:)
+
+Once those steps have been completed, changes to OpenStack
+should be submitted for review via the Gerrit tool, following
+the workflow documented at [http://wiki.openstack.org/GerritWorkflow](http://wiki.openstack.org/GerritWorkflow).
+
+Pull requests submitted through GitHub will be ignored.
+
+Bugs should be filed [on Launchpad](https://bugs.launchpad.net/cinder),
+not in GitHub's issue tracker.