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-<!--
-Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
-
-SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
--->
-Welcome to curl, thanks for contributing!
-
-1. Please submit your PR in *draft mode* and mark it *ready* once the CI jobs
-   are green, you are happy with the PR and want a review and merge.
-2. Expect a few problems in your first submission that need fixing.
-3. When your PR is ready for merge, mark it ready and ask for a review.
-4. If your PR takes a while to complete, be prepared to rebase and force-push
-   it along the way to fix conflicts with things that are merged into master
-   while your PR is developed.