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+### Before submitting a pull request, please make sure you read the instructions in the ["Contribution to the Plugin"](https://github.com/jenkinsci/gitlab-plugin/tree/master#contributing-to-the-plugin) section in the README.
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+*(if you read the above instructions, remove the paragraph and start describing the pull request)*