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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ xCAT is made available as open source software under the EPL license:
 http://www.opensource.org/licenses/eclipse-1.0.php
 
 
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+Developers and prospective contributors are encouraged to read the developers
+guide: http://xcat-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/developers/
+and in particular the github related subsection:
+http://xcat-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/developers/github/