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 - Unless you're reporting an obvious bug that can be immediately recreated by anyone, please **create a demo** with the minimum amount of code needed to reproduce your bug. You can use this template, which already has Velocity and its UI pack loaded: http://jsfiddle.net/hN9AT/.
 
+- I rarely merge pull requests. There is no need to make one; just explain your issue and I will take care of it.
+
 - Please read the FAQ before asking questions: https://github.com/julianshapiro/velocity/issues/47.