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Helping to Resolve Existing Issues
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-As a next step beyond reporting issues, you can help the core team resolve existing issues. If you check the [issues list](https://github.com/rails/rails/issues) in GitHub Issues, you'll find lots of issues already requiring attention. What can you do for these? Quite a bit, actually:
+As a next step beyond reporting issues, you can help the core team resolve existing ones by providing feedback about them. If you are new to Rails core development, that might be a great way to walk your first steps, you'll get familiar with the code base and the processes.
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+If you check the [issues list](https://github.com/rails/rails/issues) in GitHub Issues, you'll find lots of issues already requiring attention. What can you do for these? Quite a bit, actually:
### Verifying Bug Reports
@@ -132,7 +134,8 @@ learn about Ruby on Rails, and the API, which serves as a reference.
You can help improve the Rails guides by making them more coherent, consistent or readable, adding missing information, correcting factual errors, fixing typos, or bringing them up to date with the latest edge Rails.
-To do so, open a pull request to [Rails](https://github.com/rails/rails) on GitHub.
+To do so, make changes to Rails guides source files (located [here](https://github.com/rails/rails/tree/master/guides/source) on GitHub). Then open a pull request to apply your
+changes to master branch.
When working with documentation, please take into account the [API Documentation Guidelines](api_documentation_guidelines.html) and the [Ruby on Rails Guides Guidelines](ruby_on_rails_guides_guidelines.html).