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+Important: to avoid polarizing/hurtful discussions in our public spaces, any
+matter pertaining to our use of this Code of Conduct should be brought
+privately to the Guix maintainers at guix-maintainers@gnu.org.  Failure to do
+so will be considered as a violation of this Code of Conduct.
+
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