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-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](http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html)
-
-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](http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html#development-workflow).
-
-Gerrit is the review system used in the OpenStack projects.  We're sorry, but
-we won't be able to respond to pull requests submitted through GitHub.
-
-Bugs should be filed [on Launchpad](https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-swiftclient),
-not in GitHub's issue tracker.
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+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
+
+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.
+
+Gerrit is the review system used in the OpenStack projects. We're sorry,
+but we won't be able to respond to pull requests submitted through
+GitHub.
+
+Bugs should be filed on Launchpad, not Github:
+
+    https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-swiftclient