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+===================
+cloud-init development
+===================
+
+cloud-init is maintained in a `source tree`_ rather than directly in dist-git
+using packit service that provides way to develope using regular source code
+structure and provides way to generate SRPM and build using koji service.
+
+Developers deliver all changes to source-git using merge request. Only maintainers
+will be pushing changes sent to source-git to dist-git.
+
+Each release in dist-git is tagged in the source repository so you can easily
+check out the source tree for a build. The tags are in the format
+name-version-release, but note release doesn't contain the dist tag since the
+source can be built in different build roots (Fedora, CentOS, etc.)
+
+.. _source tree: https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src/cloud-init
+