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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
+
+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
+
+Pull requests submitted through GitHub will be ignored.
+
+Bugs should be filed on Launchpad, not GitHub:
+
+   https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystonemiddleware
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@@ -18,3 +18,5 @@ Bugs and feature requests are tracked on Launchpad at:
 For any other information, refer to the parent project, Keystone:
 
     https://github.com/openstack/keystone
+
+For information on contributing, see ``CONTRIBUTING.rst``.