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Go is an open source project maintained by hundreds of contributors. We appreciate your help and welcome contributions from the community.

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Before Filing an Issue

If you are unsure whether you have found a bug, please consider asking in the golang-nuts mailing list or other forums first. If the behavior you are seeing is confirmed as a bug or issue, it can easily be re-raised in the issue tracker.

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Filing Issues

Sensitive security-related issues should be reported to [email protected]. See the security policy for details.

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Using go bug

The recommended way to file an issue is by running: 
go bug
This command automatically collects relevant system information and opens your default editor to compose the issue.

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Manual Issue Reporting

When filing an issue manually, make sure to answer these five questions:
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Go Version

What version of Go are you using?
go version
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System Information

What operating system and processor architecture are you using?
3

Steps to Reproduce

What did you do?
4

Expected Behavior

What did you expect to see?
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Actual Behavior

What did you see instead?

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Change Proposals

For proposing changes to the Go language, standard library, or tools, see Proposing Changes To Go.

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Contributing Code

Before sending patches, please read the complete Contribution Guidelines.
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Read the Guidelines

Review the official Contribution Guidelines to understand the process.
2

Sign the CLA

You may need to sign the Contributor License Agreement (CLA) before your contribution can be accepted.
3

Follow Code Review Process

All code changes go through the code review process.

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License

Unless otherwise noted, the Go source files are distributed under the BSD-style license found in the LICENSE file.

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