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+** PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE FILING AN ISSUE **
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+## Feature Requests / Breaking Changes in mdl-1.x
+
+The MDL core team has actively begun work on the next major version of MDL, dubbed **MDL v2**. Because we are a small team that's hyper-focused on delivering the best Material Design Library possible for the web, _it is highly unlikely that we will be actively working on new features or making backwards-incompatible changes for MDL as it currently exists._
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+If there is a non-breaking feature you would like to see implemented in `mdl-1.x` and are willing to contribute, we'd be happy to offer assistance with you doing so. But we will not personally be actively working on said features.
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+While we are just getting started with our next version of MDL, you can see our current progress on [master](https://github.com/google/material-design-lite/tree/master) as well as an overview of the direction we're headed in our [(WIP) developer guide](https://github.com/google/material-design-lite/blob/master/docs/DEVELOPER.md) as well as our [initial POC branch](https://github.com/google/material-design-lite/tree/experimental/v2-architecture-poc) for our new architecture.
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+If you're interested in information for a specific MDL v2 component, check out our [v2-component issues](https://github.com/google/material-design-lite/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20label%3Av2-component) to see which v2 milestone it's associated with and feel free to subscribe to that issue for updates.
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+## Bugs
+
+Please include the following information with your bug report:
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+> What MDL Version are you using? (please be specific, e.g. _major.minor.patch_)
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+> What browser(s) is this bug affecting (including version)? 
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+> What OS (and version) are you using?
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+> What are the steps to reproduce the bug? Can you create a plunker/codepen/jsfiddle which reproduces it?
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+> What is the expected behavior?
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+> What is the actual behavior?
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+> Any other information you believe would be useful?
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