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You can contribute to Erlang/OTP by opening a Pull Request.
+Make sure you create a new branch for your pull request with `git checkout -b new-branch-name`.
+Never do your work directly on `maint` or `master`.
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## Fixing a bug
* In most cases, pull requests for bug fixes should be based on the `maint` branch.