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+Too many issues will kill our team's development velocity, drastically.
+Make sure you have checked all steps below.
+
+### Prerequisite
+* [ ] Make sure your problem is not listed in [the common build problems](https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv/wiki/Common-build-problems).
+* [ ] Make sure no duplicated issue has already been reported in [the pyenv issues](https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv/issues). You should look for closed issues, too.
+* [ ] Make sure you are not asking us to help solving your specific issue.
+  * GitHub issues is opened mainly for development purposes. If you want to ask someone to help solving your problem, go to some community site like [Gitter](https://gitter.im/yyuu/pyenv), [StackOverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/pyenv), etc.
+* [ ] Make sure your problem is not derived from packaging (e.g. [Homebrew](https://brew.sh)).
+  * Please refer to the package documentation for the installation issues, etc.
+* [ ] Make sure your problem is not derived from plugins.
+  * This repository is maintaining `pyenv` and the default `python-build` plugin only. Please refrain from reporting issues of other plugins here.
+
+### Description
+- [ ] Platform information (e.g. Ubuntu Linux 16.04):
+- [ ] OS architecture (e.g. amd64):
+- [ ] pyenv version:
+- [ ] Python version:
+- [ ] C Compiler information (e.g. gcc 7.3): 
+- [ ] Please attach verbose build log as gist
+  * You can turn on verbose debug logging using by setting `PYENV_DEBUG=1`, e.g. `env PYENV_DEBUG=1 pyenv install -v 3.6.4`
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+Make sure you have checked all steps below.
+
+### Prerequisite
+* [ ] Please consider implementing the feature as a hook script or plugin as a first step.
+  * pyenv has some powerful support for plugins and hook scripts. Please refer to [Authoring plugins](https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv/wiki/Authoring-plugins) for details and try to implement it as a plugin if possible.
+* [ ] Please consider contributing the patch upstream to [rbenv](https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv), since we have borrowed most of the code from this project.
+  * We are occasionally importing the changes from rbenv. In general, you can expect some changes made in rbenv will be imported to pyenv too, eventually.
+  * Generaly speaking, we sometimes don't prefer to make some change in the core to keep compatibility with rbenv.
+* [ ] My PR addresses the following pyenv issue (if any)
+  - https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv/issues/XXXX
+
+### Description
+- [ ] Here are some details about my PR
+
+### Tests
+- [ ] My PR adds the following unit tests (if any)