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+Contributing
+------------
+
+Djrill is maintained by its users -- it's not managed by the folks at MailChimp.
+Pull requests are always welcome to improve support for Mandrill and Django
+features.
+
+Please include test cases with pull requests. (And by submitting a pull request,
+you're agreeing to release your changes under under the same BSD license as the
+rest of this project.)
+
+
 Release Notes
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