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Paul Jolly e0d50a5830 doc: improve issue template and contribution guidelines
Encourage people towards the various help forums as a first port of
call. Better sign-posting will reduce the incidence or questions being
asked in the issue tracker that should otherwise be handled elsewhere,
thereby keeping the issue tracker email traffic more focussed.

Change-Id: I13b2e498d88be010fca421067ae6fb579a46d6b7
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/34250
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
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# Contributing to Go
Go is an open source project.
It is the work of hundreds of contributors. We appreciate your help!
## Before filing an issue
If you are unsure whether you have found a bug, please consider asking in the [golang-nuts mailing
list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/golang-nuts) or [other forums](https://golang.org/help/) first. If
the behavior you are seeing is confirmed as a bug or issue, it can easily be re-raised in the issue tracker.
## Filing issues
Sensitive security-related issues should be reported to [security@golang.org](mailto:security@golang.org).
See the [security policy](https://golang.org/security) for details.
Otherwise, when filing an issue, make sure to answer these five questions:
1. What version of Go are you using (`go version`)?
2. What operating system and processor architecture are you using?
3. What did you do?
4. What did you expect to see?
5. What did you see instead?
For change proposals, see [Proposing Changes To Go](https://github.com/golang/proposal/).
## Contributing code
Please read the [Contribution Guidelines](https://golang.org/doc/contribute.html) before sending patches.
**We do not accept GitHub pull requests**
(we use [an instance](https://go-review.googlesource.com/) of the
[Gerrit](https://www.gerritcodereview.com/) code review system instead).
Also, please do not post patches on the issue tracker.
Unless otherwise noted, the Go source files are distributed under
the BSD-style license found in the LICENSE file.