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-Please answer these questions before submitting your issue. Thanks!
-
-### What version of Cassandra are you using?
-
-
-### What version of Gocql are you using?
-
-
-### What version of Go are you using?
-
-
-### What did you do?
-
-
-### What did you expect to see?
-
-
-### What did you see instead?
-
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-
-If you are having connectivity related issues please share the following additional information
-
-### Describe your Cassandra cluster
-please provide the following information
-
-- output of `nodetool status`
-- output of `SELECT peer, rpc_address FROM system.peers`
-- rebuild your application with the `gocql_debug` tag and post the output
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+Thanks for sending a pull request! Here are some tips if you're new here:
+
+ * Reflect JIRA ticket number in the pull request title 
+ * Be sure to keep the PR description updated to reflect all changes.
+ * Write your PR title to summarize what this PR proposes.
+ * If possible, provide a concise example to reproduce the issue for a faster review.
+ 
+Commit messages should follow the following format:
+
+```
+<One sentence description, usually Jira title or CHANGES.txt summary>
+
+<Optional lengthier description (context on patch)>
+
+patch by <Authors>; reviewed by <Reviewers> for CASSANDRA-#####
+
+Co-authored-by: Name1 <email1>
+Co-authored-by: Name2 <email2>
+
+```
+
+The [Cassandra Jira](https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/CASSANDRA/issues/)
+