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@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
-If you would like to contribute to the development of OpenStack, you must
-follow the steps in this page:
+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:
+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