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 ============
 Contributing
 ============
-.. include:: ../../CONTRIBUTING.rst
+
+Contributions are most welcome!  You must first create a
+Launchpad account and `follow the instructions here <http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html#account-setup>`_
+to get started as a new OpenStack contributor.
+
+Once you've signed the contributor license agreement and read through
+the above documentation, add your public SSH key under the 'SSH Public Keys'
+section of review.openstack.org_.
+
+.. _review.openstack.org: https://review.openstack.org/#/settings/
+
+You can view your public key using:
+
+::
+
+    $ cat ~/.ssh/id_*.pub
+
+Set your username and email for review.openstack.org:
+
+::
+
+    $ git config --global user.email "example@example.com"
+    $ git config --global user.name "example"
+    $ git config --global --add gitreview.username "example"
+
+Next, Clone the github repository:
+
+::
+
+    $ git clone https://github.com/openstack/cyborg.git
+
+You need to have git-review in order to be able to submit patches using
+the gerrit code review system. You can install it using:
+
+::
+
+    $ sudo yum install git-review
+
+To set up your cloned repository to work with OpenStack Gerrit
+
+::
+
+    $ git review -s
+
+It's useful to create a branch to do your work, name it something
+related to the change you'd like to introduce.
+
+::
+
+    $ cd cyborg
+    $ git branch my_special_enhancement
+    $ git checkout !$
+
+Make your changes and then commit them using the instructions
+below.
+
+::
+
+    $ git add /path/to/files/changed
+    $ git commit
+
+Use a descriptive commit title followed by an empty space.
+You should type a small justification of what you are
+changing and why.
+
+Now you're ready to submit your changes for review:
+
+::
+
+    $ git review
+
+
+If you want to make another patchset from the same commit you can
+use the amend feature after further modification and saving.
+
+::
+
+    $ git add /path/to/files/changed
+    $ git commit --amend
+    $ git review
+
+If you want to submit a new patchset from a different location
+(perhaps on a different machine or computer for example) you can
+clone the Cyborg repo again (if it doesn't already exist) and then
+use git review against your unique Change-ID:
+
+::
+
+    $ git review -d Change-Id
+
+Change-Id is the change id number as seen in Gerrit and will be
+generated after your first successful submission.
+
+The above command downloads your patch onto a separate branch. You might
+need to rebase your local branch with remote master before running it to
+avoid merge conflicts when you resubmit the edited patch.  To avoid this
+go back to a "safe" commit using:
+
+::
+
+    $ git reset --hard commit-number
+
+Then,
+
+::
+
+    $ git fetch origin
+
+::
+
+    $ git rebase origin/master
+
+Make the changes on the branch that was setup by using the git review -d
+(the name of the branch is along the lines of
+review/username/branch_name/patchsetnumber).
+
+Add the files to git and commit your changes using,
+
+::
+
+    $ git commit --amend
+
+You can edit your commit message as well in the prompt shown upon
+executing above command.
+
+Finally, push the patch for review using,
+
+::
+
+    $ git review
+
+Adding functionality
+--------------------
+
+If you are adding new functionality to Cyborg please add testing for that functionality
+and provide a detailed commit message outlining the goals of your commit and how you
+achived them.
+
+If the functionality you wish to add doesn't fix in an existing part of the Cyborg
+achitecture diagram drop by our team meetings to disscuss how it could be implemented
+