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 These guidelines mainly applies to Typesafe’s “mature” projects - not necessarily to projects of the type ‘collection of scripts’ etc.
 
+In case of questions about the contribution process or for discussion of specific issues please visit the [akka/dev gitter chat](https://gitter.im/akka/dev).
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 ## General Workflow
 
 This is the process for committing code into master. There are of course exceptions to these rules, for example minor changes to comments and documentation, fixing a broken build etc.