-The Go project is an open source project.
-For information, see: https://golang.org/
+# Contributing to Go
-Its canonical Git repository is located at https://go.googlesource.com/go.
-(There is a mirror of the repository at https://github.com/golang/go.)
+Go is an open source project.
-Report issues here: https://github.com/golang/go/issues
+It is the work of hundreds of contributors. We appreciate your help!
-Go is the work of hundreds of contributors. We appreciate your help!
-To contribute, please read the contribution guidelines:
- http://golang.org/doc/contribute.html
+## Filing issues
-## We DO NOT accept pull requests.
+When filing an issue, make sure to answer these five questions:
+
+1. What version of Go are you using (`go version`)?
+2. What operating system and processor architecture are you using?
+3. What did you do?
+4. What did you expect to see?
+5. What did you see instead?
+
+
+## Contributing code
+
+Please read the [Contribution Guidelines](https://golang.org/doc/contribute.html)
+before sending patches.
+
+**We do not accept GitHub pull requests**
+(we use [Gerrit](https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/) instead for code review).
+
+Unless otherwise noted, the Go source files ared istributed under
+the BSD-style license found in the LICENSE file.
-This is the source code repository for the Go programming language.
+# The Go Programming Language
+
+![Gopher image](doc/gopher/fiveyears.jpg)
For documentation about how to install and use Go,
visit http://golang.org/ or load doc/install-source.html
in your web browser.
-After installing Go, you can view a nicely formatted
-doc/install-source.html by running godoc --http=:6060
-and then visiting http://localhost:6060/doc/install/source.
+Our canonical Git repository is located at https://go.googlesource.com/go.
+(There is a mirror of the repository at https://github.com/golang/go.)
+
+Please report issues here: https://github.com/golang/go/issues
+
+Go is the work of hundreds of contributors. We appreciate your help!
+
+To contribute, please read the contribution guidelines:
+ http://golang.org/doc/contribute.html
Unless otherwise noted, the Go source files are distributed
under the BSD-style license found in the LICENSE file.
--
-Binary Distribution Notes
+## Binary Distribution Notes
If you have just untarred a binary Go distribution, you need to set
the environment variable $GOROOT to the full path of the go
For example, if you extracted the tar file into $HOME/go, you might
put the following in your .profile:
- export GOROOT=$HOME/go
- export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin
+ export GOROOT=$HOME/go
+ export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin
+
+See https://golang.org/doc/install or doc/install.html for more details.
-See doc/install.html for more details.