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 1. Once your feature is complete, prepare the commit following our [Creating Commits And Writing Commit Messages](#creating-commits-and-writing-commit-messages). For example, a good commit message would be: `Adding compression support for Manifests #22222` (note the reference to the ticket it aimed to resolve).
 1. If it's a new feature, or a change of behaviour, document it on the [akka-docs](https://github.com/akka/akka/tree/master/akka-docs), remember, an undocumented feature is not a feature. If the feature was touching Scala or Java DSL, make sure to document it in both the Java and Scala documentation (usually in a file of the same name, but under `/scala/` instead of `/java/` etc).
 1. Now it's finally time to [submit the pull request](https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests)!
+    - Please make sure to include a reference to the issue you're solving *in the comment* for the Pull Request, this will cause the PR to be linked properly with the Issue. Examples of good phrases for this are: "Resolves #1234" or "Refs #1234".
 1. If you have not already done so, you will be asked by our CLA bot to [sign the Lightbend CLA](http://www.lightbend.com/contribute/cla) online. CLA stands for Contributor License Agreement and is a way of protecting intellectual property disputes from harming the project.
 1. If you're not already on the contributors white-list, the @akka-ci bot will ask `Can one of the repo owners verify this patch?`, to which a core member will reply by commenting `OK TO TEST`. This is just a sanity check to prevent malicious code from being run on the Jenkins cluster.
 1. Now both committers and interested people will review your code. This process is to ensure the code we merge is of the best possible quality, and that no silly mistakes slip through. You're expected to follow-up these comments by adding new commits to the same branch. The commit messages of those commits can be more loose, for example: `Removed debugging using printline`, as they all will be squashed into one commit before merging into the main branch.