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+Please answer these questions before submitting your issue. 
+ 
+### Should this be an issue in the gRPC issue tracker?
+ 
+Create new issues for bugs and feature requests. An issue needs to be actionable. General gRPC discussions and usage questions belong to:
+- [grpc.io mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/grpc-io)
+- [StackOverflow, with `grpc` tag](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/grpc)
+ 
+*Please don't double post your questions in more locations, we are monitoring both channels and the time spent de-duplicating questions can is better spent answering more user questions.*
+ 
+### What version of gRPC and what language are you using?
+ 
+ 
+### What operating system (Linux, Windows, …) and version?
+ 
+ 
+### What runtime / compiler are you using (e.g. python version or version of gcc)
+ 
+ 
+### What did you do?
+If possible, provide a recipe for reproducing the error. Try being specific and include code snippets if helpful.
+ 
+### What did you expect to see?
+ 
+ 
+### What did you see instead?
+ 
+Make sure you include information that can help us debug (full error message, exception listing, stack trace, logs).
+ 
+### Anything else we should know about your project / environment?
+