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+Contributing to Wine Staging
+----------------------------
+
+First of all, thank you for taking the time to contribute to this project.
+
+### Reporting bugs
+
+Since WineConf 2015 Wine Staging is an official part of WineHQ, which means you
+can report problems directly at [bugs.winehq.org](https://bugs.winehq.org/).
+Most of the time bugs found in Wine Staging also turn out to be present in the
+development branch, so its recommended to open your bug in the "Wine" product,
+unless you are sure its really "Wine Staging" specific. For bugs related to our
+binary packages, please open a bug report in the "Packaging" product.
+
+### Submitting patches
+
+** IMPORTANT: Please use [dev.wine-staging.com](https://dev.wine-staging.com/patches)
+for patch submission, we currently do not accept Pull requests on GitHub. **
+
+Wine Staging mainly concentrates on experimental features and patches which are
+difficult to get into the development branch. If you have a very simple bug fix
+including tests, there is usually no need to send it to Wine Staging. You can
+directly contribute it to the
+[development branch](http://wiki.winehq.org/SubmittingPatches). However, if you
+already tried that without success, or are working on such a complex area that
+you do not really think its ready for inclusion, you might want to submit it to
+our Staging tree. Please open a patch submission request on
+[dev.wine-staging.com](https://dev.wine-staging.com/patches) including the patch.
+More information is also available in our
+[Wiki](https://wiki.winehq.org/Wine-Staging_Patches).
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@@ -24,16 +24,6 @@ other wine-specific programs like `winecfg`. To learn more about how to use
 Wine Staging, please take a look at the
 [usage instructions](https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-staging/wiki/Usage).
 
-Reporting bugs
---------------
-
-Since WineConf 2015 Wine Staging is an official part of WineHQ, which means you
-can report problems directly at https://bugs.winehq.org/. Most of the time bugs
-found in Wine Staging also turn out to be present in the development branch, so
-its recommended to open your bug in the "Wine" product, unless you are sure its
-really "Wine Staging" specific. For problems with our binary packages, please
-also open a bug report there.
-
 Building
 --------
 
@@ -88,14 +78,5 @@ in our [Wiki](https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-staging/wiki/Packaging).
 Contributing
 ------------
 
-Wine Staging mainly concentrates on experimental features and patches which are
-difficult to get into the development branch. If you have a very simple bug fix
-including tests, there is usually no need to send it to Wine Staging. You can
-directly contribute it to the
-[development branch](http://wiki.winehq.org/SubmittingPatches). However, if you
-already tried that without success, or are working on such a complex area that
-you do not really think its ready for inclusion, you might want to submit it to
-our Staging tree. Please open a patch submission request on
-[bugs.wine-staging.com](https://bugs.wine-staging.com/) including the patch.
-More information is also available in our
-[Wiki](https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-staging/wiki/Contributing).
+Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for more information about contributing to Wine
+Staging.