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@@ -33,11 +33,9 @@ Hi! We, the maintainers, are really excited that you are interested in contribut
 - It's OK to have multiple small commits as you work on the PR - we will let GitHub automatically squash it before merging.
 
 - If adding new feature:
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   - Provide convincing reason to add this feature. Ideally you should open a suggestion issue first and have it greenlighted before working on it.
 
 - If fixing a bug:
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   - If you are resolving a special issue, add `(fix: #xxxx[,#xxx])` (#xxxx is the issue id) in your PR title for a better release log, e.g. `fix: update entities encoding/decoding (fix #3899)`.
   - Provide detailed description of the bug in the PR, or link to an issue that does.