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 3.  Email a link to your pull request to <quiche-contribution@google.com>.
 4.  An engineer will review your pull request and merge it internally.
 
+Note: if you are a Google engineer with access to google3, please submit a CL to
+google3 directly.
+
 ## Community Guidelines
 
 This project follows