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-# Welcome to the Scala 2 tracker!
+# Welcome to the Scala 2 bug tracker!
 
-## What belongs here?
+This is the right place to report a bug or a minor shortcoming in the Scala 2 compiler, standard library, or language specification.
 
-This is the right place to report a bug or a minor shortcoming in the Scala 2 compiler, standard library, and language specification.
+## No questions, please
+
+If you're not certain your issue is a bug, please ask about it elsewhere first:
+
+ - [the Scala Users forum](https://users.scala-lang.org/);
+ - [the scala/scala Gitter room](https://gitter.im/scala/scala);
+ - [questions tagged with #scala on Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/scala).
+
+## No feature requests, please
 
 To keep this tracker focused, we ask that feature requests and discussion of potential language changes take place in the [language design](https://contributors.scala-lang.org/c/language-design) category on our contributors forum.
 
-For further bug reporting guidelines, see [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/scala/bug/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).
+## How to report a bug
+
+Thank you for finding a bug. We're sorry for the trouble it caused!
+
+Before opening an issue here, please:
+
+  1. do a search to make sure it hasn't already been reported
+  2. use a small, self-contained snippet of Scala code to illustrate what happened, and contrast with what you expected the compiler to say or the library to do;
+  3. include the Scala version(s) you've tried, and the version of the JVM you're using.
+
+A bug report without a small, self-contained code snippet is much less likely to receive attention.
+
+## Help with contributing fixes
+
+We are happy to help you with your contribution via:
+
+ - [the Scala Contributors forum](https://contributors.scala-lang.org/);
+ - [the scala/contributors Gitter room](https://gitter.im/scala/contributors);
+ - [our "Get Ready to Contribute" guide](https://github.com/scala/scala/#get-ready-to-contribute);
+ - [our "Scala Hacker" guide](https://scala-lang.org/contribute/hacker-guide.html).
+
+## Where is Scala 3?
+
+It's in the [dotty repo](https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty).
+
+## History
+
+This repo is separate from [scala/scala](https://github.com/scala/scala) because we wanted to preserve the issue numbers from our previous bug trackers, but those numbers conflicted with the pull-request numbers in scala/scala.
+
+The first 10250 issues in this tracker were [imported](https://github.com/adriaanm/bbj) from [JIRA](https://issues.scala-lang.org?orig=1). We made every attempt to preserve all data and metadata that's supported by the GitHub import API. Sadly, the author metadata could not be preserved directly.
+
+Serious archaeologists can dig up the dusty skeletons of tickets 1-1299 from [Aladdin](http://lrytz.github.io/scala-aladdin-bugtracker/displayBugs.do.html).
+